The Winter Horses

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - Gray New Gloucester Middle School, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 8, 2014

Review

This has the feel of White Fang and Incredible Journey. Kalinka is the lone survivor of her Jewish family in a Nazis invaded Ukranian steppe. She walks for hundreds of miles until she comes to the Russian nature reserve at Askaniya-Nova (a real place still open to the public today). She lives with a family of Przewalski horses (oldest horses on earth found in cave paintings). The Nazis are intent on killing off these non-German horses, and Kalinka escapes with what may be the last mating pair on earth.

Overall Book Score: excellent