Walter Farley - The Black Stallion

Pros: Adventure, excitement, mature young adult behavior
Cons: It's an intermediate book

When I was in about 5th grade my small town in Ohio acquired a branch of the county library courtesy of the local Rotary of which my father was a member. At this library was the full series of Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books. To say I devoured them...

Pros: action packed, not overly long
Cons: none particularly

At the age of 12, I was keenly horse mad and also loved adventure stories, whether they be kids solving mysteries, or Cherry Ames going on some exotic nursing assignment, or an outing in the Star Wars universe. Imagine my great excitement when I ...

Pros: Adventure, horses, courage, horses, character, and last but not least, horses!
Cons: Somewhat dated (written in the 40's).

Walter Farley's Black Stallion series begins with this book, which he began writing while still in high school. It was several decades old when I first read it, and will be even older by the time I pass it on to my children, but it should always endure...

Pros: Good clean books. Any age will enjoy
Cons: Mr. Farley has passed away so there will be no more

The Black Stallion was Mr Farley's first book. It is hard to believe, but he wrote it while still in high school.
I read the Black Stallion for the first time in eighth grade. I had decided way back then to read a classic for every two...

Pros: There is not a better children's horse story series out there. This is the best even after all these years.
Cons: The fact that Walter Farley is gone and won't be able to write any more great books, but his son started to add to the series. Let's hope he keeps it up.

As a young child I started out reading the "Billy and Blaze" books by CW Anderson. Then when I got older I turned to Walter Farley's The Black Stallion series. I think these are excellent books for horse crazy girls or boys.

The way...

Pros: Timeless Classic story . A entertaining today was when it was written
Cons: None From Me

The Black Stallion was one of my favorites growing up and I was very pleased to see new editions of the entire series in the stores. What pleased me more was the fact that my son started reading it and enjoyed it as much as I did.
I think the fact...

Pros: horses, fun to read, good morals
Cons: none

Something happened to me in sixth grade, I'm not sure what, and I pretty much quit reading, at least for pleasure. Then I read a brief excerpt from The Black Stallion in my seventh-grade English textbook (it had a cartoon drawing with it), in which Alec and Black were swimming in the sea while the ship sank. I got that book, and it got me right back into reading and enjoying reading. I read every Black stallion book that I could get my hands on, and now I read all kinds of books.