The most famous and loved racing story of all time. National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girls belief in a horse. Velvetll sit on a horse like a shadow and breathe her soul into it I never seen such a creature on a horse. Fourteen year old Velvet is mad about horses. When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she knows hes something special. His heart is as big as the five-foot fences he jumps, and hell do anything for Velvet. Soon, she and her friend Mi have their sights set on the biggest race in England. But can a girl win the Grand National? Perfect for horse and ponly lovers from nine to ninety nine years old. The book that inspired the classic film starring Elizabeth Taylor, National Velvet is a true classic of print and screen. Alongside Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka it is one of the great horse books for children. My childhood dreams were based on this book it was the only place Id ever seen them come true Clare Balding

 

 

This book features in the following series: Classic Mammoth, Dover Childrens Classics, Flare Original Novels, Modern Classics, Piccolo Books .

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 352 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Enid Bagnold was born in 1889 and was mostly brought up in Jamaica. She was a nurse and a driver in France during the First World War. Enid Bagnold wrote poems, novels and plays, the most famous of which is The Chalk Garden. National Velvet is her most well-known novel, and remains much-loved to this day.