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An owl hooted. Once. Twice. Something screeched. Something near the house. Addie shivered in her duvet nest. She lay very still.
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The Fox-Pitts are an amazing family, and any horse coming from the Fox-Pitts was always going to be a character,” observes the Oxfordshire trainer. What they haven’t done in the equestrian world isn’t worth doing, and their horses seem to follow suit.” Having had interrupted campaigns in previous seasons, Snow Leopardess has a full 2021-22 campaign, something Longsdon believes has helped significantly. Sunni shrugged her shoulders. ‘My mum wants me to come home too, only she couldn’t learn how to look after me properly, so I’m staying here.’ The social service workers in the book are portrayed as always not even trying to explain to the child why they make the decisions they make. It seems that the author implicitly agrees with that approach. Well I think that's NOT the right way. One ought to be both open and sincere with the child, while using language at an appropriate level, instead of concealing or distorting the truth based on the excuse that it is for the child's sake. Although one needs to take into account the child's emotional and mental well-being, it is counter-productive to work based on the assumption that social service workers always know what is best. All humans (professional or not) may make mistakes, and it is hence a disservice to the child to not at least seek to understand and cater for the child's own feelings as part of working WITH the child. I did not like that this "social service workers know best" mantra was repeated and implied to be true multiple times (such as by the words that the author made Gabe say to Addie). Gabe, the son of the couple who runs the farm finds a foal in the snow and manages to get it into a barn but it refuses to feed. Addie helps Gabe out with the foal as she knows what it is like to be separated from your mother. In time the foal begins to trust Addie. However, Addie isn’t happy that there are rules about the foal’s heritage which will decide whether it will be returned to the moors and its mother or not. She is determined that she will reunite the foal with its mother, as well as being reunited with her own.
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She’ll be fine tomorrow,’ Addie said. She looked at Ruth. ‘She just needed more sleep, that’s all.’ And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon ...
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He added: “I’ve got no issues with her stamina whatsoever. Yes, it looked like she was tying up in the Becher Chase but that is because she had been in front for two and a half miles into a driving headwind and driving rain. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon . . .We couldn’t wait to go over the big fences to be honest as we always thought she would take to them fine, but you never quite know. I’m always a glass half-full person though. Yes, we expected her to love them but until you jump them you never quite know. I absolutely love Snow Foal – it’s so truthful, tender and touching. A book to read in a day and remember for a lifetime.’ – Dame Jacqueline Wilson
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Longdson is fully aware of the challenge that Snow Leopardess faces in creating a slice of history, but he is confident she will have no problems seeing out the extended four and a quarter mile trip. The characters are so realistic and their personal stories may have you reaching for the tissues. As well as Addie we have teenager Gabe who is the adopted son of the couple, Ruth and Sam who foster the children. We also have little six-year-old Jude who doesn’t speak and Sunni who is resentful of Addie being there and sharing her bedroom. When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she’s not so alone after all. Eleven-year-old Addie has been taken to a rural farm in Exmoor, to stay with a foster family whilst her mum gets help in looking after herself and her daughter. Addie is angry and upset to be apart from her mum and doesn’t want to be at the farm. She hopes it is just for one night, but one night turns into weeks and then months. Snow Foal is such a beautiful, irresistible novel. It is a novel that you will take into your heart and hold dear. The subject matter is very touching and the writing leaves you feeling as if you are reading about real events.
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We’ve had horses get around but we have never had horses shorter than 50-1 really. If the ground had been drier then Pendra would have been alright.
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And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon … However, the Martaline mare has history to contend with if she is to secure a place in the record books on April 9. The perfect children’s book to curl up with and begin the new year. A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut for kids aged 9 to 11, full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracey Beaker , Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis. When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. Five years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation. Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unaware of the extent of the danger around her; the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. When the Germans plan to round up the Jews, the Johansens take in Annemarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is their daughter; later, they travel to Uncle Hendrik's house on the coast, where the Rosens and other Jews are transported by fishing boat to Sweden. Apart from Lise's offstage death, there is little violence here; like Annemarie, the reader is protected from the full implications of events—but will be caught up in the suspense and menace of several encounters with soldiers and in Annemarie's courageous run as courier on the night of the escape. The book concludes with the Jews' return, after the war, to homes well kept for them by their neighbors.Snow Leopardess might be the centre of attention at present but in time Longsdon hopes that her legacy will live on through her daughter Red Panda, who will join his team this summer. Your bed’s that one,’ Sunni said, pointing to a wooden bed in the corner. Addie’s purple duvet from home was on it and her best pyjamas were laid out ready. They didn’t look right in this room. Someone had put a blue dressing gown there too. It wasn’t hers. My only problems with the book really was that there didn't seem to be any closure on Addie's trouble with the bullies in school, and although this was touched upon with Gabe, Ruth and Sam trying to help her with it, it might've been nice to show that things had just started to look up for her maybe. I think as well that the story was maybe just a little bit drawn out, like it could've been a bit more concise and maybe beated around the bush just a bit, like with Addie wanting to get the foal home (which I also think might've been better if someone had shown up and stopped her before she actually went through with it) and Addie and Sunni's rivalry, which although we seemed to start to get some closure on at the end, it might've been nice if this had come just a little bit earlier, but at gradual stages, as obviously I didn't expect them to become BFFs by the end of the book, but it might've been nice seeming them just gradually and subtly connect over their mutual problems of being in care. The shopkeeper poked at them with a thin finger, pulled a piece of dark fluff from among them. ‘I’ve not seen your mam in a while,’ she said. ‘Under the weather again, is she?’ Mam didn’t like the night. She wandered around the house until morning. She needed her loud music and her drinks to get her through the dark space in between. She needed Addie.
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