White Ravens’98/India/65994
Agarwal, Deepa (text)
Guhathakurta, Ajanta (illus.)
The toy horse
New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1997. [16pp]
ISBN 81-7011-775-5
Toy - Imagination
This picture book describes a brief encounter between two small girls who
covet each other’s toys. Rami, a gypsy girl whose family makes a living by
selling iron tools and decorative hand-sewn cloth horses by the roadside,
decides to sew 
a horse of her own to play with. Hers is not as perfect as the others, but in
her imagination she travels far on its back. One day another small girl
insists on buying Rami’s cute horse and no other. Rami tearfully agrees to
sell it at her mother’s insistence, but is rewarded then with the other 
girl’s lovely modern doll in exchange. This is a charmingly illustrated story
with universal appeal. (4+)
(2nd prize, Read-aloud, Competition for Writers of Children’s Books,
CBT)

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