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K-3
The eponymous horse recounts its many adventures across time and space, yet it never travels "more than 30 feet from where [it] started." "What horse am I?" it asks. Tipped off by the carousel horse on the book's cover, readers familiar with merry-go-rounds will likely guess the answer. Both the nostalgic text and stately scratchboard art seem geared more to adults than to children.