A HORSE CALLED ELVIS

BLURB

Right from the start, Elvis refused to be ignored. He pushed his way into our lives and made himself part of our family. Sometimes I think he was even more important than the rest of us.

When an orphan foal stumbles into Matt’s life, the trouble really begins. This is a tale of one boy’s determination, a family’s struggle to stay together, and a foal that touches all their lives.

AWARDS

Children's Book Council of Australia 2005 Honour Book: Younger Readers

Shortlisted for the YABBA Awards

SAMPLE

Prologue

Things hang around in your head for years, like old photographs in an album. Or old books in a box. Faces and feelings gather dust at the back of your mind and you seem to forget about them. But you don‘t. The album falls opens one day—or you come upon a box—and it‘s all there again, crisp and clear.

I‘m going through things I don‘t use anymore, boxes of old toys and books. A photograph album. There‘s a photo of me and a gangly foal only a few weeks old, his eyes startled and red from the flash.

Who is he, this horse called Elvis? The simple answer is that he‘s just a six-year-old liver chestnut that I‘ve grown up with. But there is another answer, one that includes Nick, Jaz, Mum and Dad. And me.