He traveled and lived in Mexico, Hawaii, the South Seas, most of the South American countries, the Caribbean Islands, and Europe. He used his first advance to go traveling and after that hardly stopped longer than it took him to write another book. It was published by Random House when he was 26. Walter Farley began to write his first book, THE BLACK STALLION, while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, andįinished it while he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. Consequently, I received a good background in different kinds of horse training and the people associated with each.' He switched from runners to jumpers to show horses to trotters and pacers, then back to runners again. Farley recalled, 'and in a way I profited by it. 'He wasn't the most successful trainer of race horses,' Mr. But unlike most city children, he had little trouble gaining firsthand experience with horses-his uncle was a professional horseman, and Walter spent much of his time at the stables with him. My copy was illustrated by Domenick D'Andrea.Walter Farley's love for horses began when he was a small boy living in Syracuse, New York, and continued as he grew up in New York City, where his family moved. I recommend this children's novel to kids and adults alike. Reading this book again brought back memories of bygone years of pleasurable midnight rides on Tonka. My first horse, Tonka, was a prancer and I loved her. My stepmother, Lynne, saved horses from neglect and abuse. Later, I would extend my love of reading about horses to actually owning a horse on my stepmother's farm.

This was my first taste of reading for pleasure. I loved it so much I went on to read all the horse books by Walter Farley, and some by other authors as well. I can remember reading this book around ten or eleven years old. What fate awaits for a boy and a wild black stallion? Soon they are on a voyage to New York in America. When Alex is rescued from the island, he insist on the Black being saved too. Alex knows if it wasn't for the Black he won't have survived the shipwreck. When the ship is destroyed during a storm, the Black stallion and Alex are the only survivors. ''.it was amazing''*Īlex Ramsey first meets the black stallion when they're both booked on a ship called the Drake. Will Alec ever make it safely home? Will the Black beat the two best racing horses in America? Well.you'll have to read to find out. Stranded on an island the only way to survive is to trust the other. In a tragic shipwreck Alec saves the life of the black stallion.

Young Alec is on his way home when a black stallion is loaded on to his ship. Story of a horse the New York Times has called ''the most famous fictional horse of the Century!''

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley