The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Burton, Virginia Lee

Calico the Wonder Horse

64 pp. | Houghton | October, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-57572-8 $14.99
New ed. (1941)

(3) K-3 While Calico, first published in 1941, always was a Christmas story, the publisher has amped up the holiday appeal by adding a red-foil-accented jacket and replacing Burton's innovative range of paper colors with just red and green. The tale of a horse who leads a stampede to thwart a holdup and save a stagecoach full of gifts remains delightfully loopy, as do the pictures.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2041; November, 2016