Gletta the Foal (book cover)

Gletta the Foal


Hardcover: Available
only from
Apple Island Books
Bruce's Forty-first Book
1998 - Cavendish
Hardcover ISBN 0-7614-5039-4
Out of print from Cavendish
Personal Note
Description
Reviews

"A captivating picture book,
which will delight youngsters,
especially ones who love horses.."

Booklist, September 15, 1998

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Personal Note
If you go to Iceland you will experience wind. On this sunny day I was out photographing Gletta and had to park the car so that it was facing into the wind and force the door open against the wind. Otherwise the seventy-miles-per-hour wind would've snapped the doors open too fast. The wind came up the bay and, as the bowl-shape of the surrounding hills made them swirl, I watched waterspouts form over the water, miniature tornadoes.

In the photo below if you look carefully you can see Gletta and her family. If you look really close you might see something that I've not been able to see - a 50mm Nikkor lens. I was photographing, changing lenses then the horses started moving, and I did too. But I'd put down a lens and forgotten it. I went back and searched and searched to no avail. Somewhere in this photo my lens is sitting on a small rock.


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Description

Gletta, a young Icelandic horse, hears something. Or did she? What can it be? It's something you can hear - but not see? As Gletta searches for an answer, young readers will identify with her and the range of responses she gets from her naive friend, wise father, teasing uncle, and comforting mother. And they will likely figure out what Gletta hears long before she does.

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Reviews

School Library Journal
December, 1998

"A beautiful quiet book for youngsters who enjoy solving a simple mystery."

MCMILLAN, Bruce. Gletta the Foal
photos. by author. unpaged. CIP.
Marshall Cavendish. 1998. Tr $14.95
ISBN 0-76145039-4. LC 9811486.

PreS-Gr 1 - The vivid blues and earth tones of the vast Icelandic landscape are captured by Bruce McMillan's sure photographic eye. Against this panoramic backdrop, a story unfolds. Gletta's first-person anthropomorphized narrative in large typeface runs along the bottom of each page. The story is a simple one; the animal is puzzled and scared by something she can hear but not see, and she asks a friend and her family what is making the noise. Although no one tells her directly, enough visual and textual clues are given for children to surmise that the wind is the culprit. There is no denying the quality of the photographs, although the limitations of the story inhibit their variety. A beautiful quiet book for youngsters who enjoy solving a simple mystery. Lee Bock, Glenbrook Elementary School, Pulaski, WI

This copyrighted © review originally appeared in School Library Journal and appears here with permission. www.slj.com

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