LoveReading4Kids Says
There’s a new mystery afoot in this entertaining sequel about Noble Warrior and his owner. Everything seems calm. Young horse lover Charlie Bass is getting her life back on track and her horse Noble Warrior is safely back in his stable after the excitement of the race. But, after such fame, is he safe? Soon Nobel Warrior goes missing. How will Charlie ever track him down? TV presenter Clare Balding has created a terrific adventure with a heart warming relationship between a young owner and her horse at the heart of it. ~ Julia Eccleshare
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The Racehorse Who Disappeared Synopsis
Clare Balding's second brilliant adventure for Charlie Bass and her funny family of humans and animals.Life is slowly getting back to normal for Charlie after her reluctant racehorse, Noble Warrior, won the Derby and saved her family from financial ruin. But drama soon returns to Folly Farm when thieves break into the farmyard in the dead of night and kidnap Noble Warrior! With the police baffled and no trace of the prizewinning thoroughbred to be found, Charlie launches her own investigation...
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9780141374468 |
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21st September 2017 |
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Clare Balding |
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Puffin an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
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Hardback |
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246 pages |
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Charlie Bass |
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Clare Balding Press Reviews
Praise for The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop;
A heart-warming story with a great girl-power message Jacqueline Wilson
A cheerful paean to books, big thighs and working hard to realise your dreams Guardian
Funny and touching Telegraph
There are useful human life lessons here: create a team, Balding urges, delegate, do your research, believe in yourself, and magic ensues Observer
Will inspire girls to aim high Daily Express
Charlie is a feisty, funny girl who will appeal to pony-mad readers who'll devour all the inside knowledge of the equine world that Balding brings to her debut Daily Mail
About Clare Balding
Clare Balding's first book, My Animals and Other Family, was a runaway number one bestseller and won the Autobiography of the Year at the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards. Her subsequent book, Walking Home was also a Sunday Times Bestseller. Clare has been a broadcaster on TV and radio for over twenty years. She has covered a range of events including five summer Olympics, four Paralympics, four Winter Olympics, three Commonwealth Games and twenty-one Grand Nationals. In 2012 she won a BAFTA special award for her work on the London Olympics and Paralympics. She also won Presenter of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards, Sports Broadcaster of the Year from the Sports Journalists Association and awards from Red, Attitude, TRIC, Women in Film and TV and Glamour magazine. In 2013 she received an OBE for services to broadcasting and journalism and in February 2016, Clare will be presented with the prestigious Media Society Annual Award.
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