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"There was a girl in the village who loved horses... She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed. People noticed that she understood horses in a special way."

And so begins the story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. With simple text and brilliant illustrations. Paul Goble tells how she eventually becomes one of them to forever run free.


「村裡有位熱愛馬兒的女孩……她牽著馬兒到河邊喝水，輕聲細語地對馬兒低語，而馬兒也附和著。人們注意到她以獨特的方式理解馬。

本書故事一開始描述一位年輕的美國原住民女孩奉獻心力照顧部落的馬。透過淺顯易懂的文字和精采的插圖，Paul Goble 娓娓道來她最後如何成為馬群的一員，永遠無拘無束地奔跑。