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The Racehorse Who Disappeared
- Narrator
- Clare Balding
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 21 September 2017
- Run Time
- 3 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Penguin presents the audio download edition of The Racehorse Who Disappeared written and read by Clare Balding.
Life is slowly getting back to normal for Charlie after her reluctant racehorse, Noble Warrior, won the Derby and saved her family from financial ruin. But drama soon returns to Folly Farm when thieves break into the farmyard in the dead of night and kidnap Noble Warrior! With the police baffled and no trace of the prizewinning thoroughbred to be found, Charlie launches her own investigation...
Critics Review
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A heart-warming story with a great girl-power message
Jacqueline Wilson on The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop
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A cheerful paean to books, big thighs and working hard to realise your dreams
Guardian
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Funny and touching
Telegraph
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There are useful human life lessons here: create a team, Balding urges, delegate, do your research, believe in yourself, and magic ensues
Observer
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Will inspire girls to aim high
Daily Express
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Charlie is a feisty, funny girl who will appeal to pony-mad readers who'll devour all the inside knowledge of the equine world that Balding brings to her debut
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Clare Balding, illustrated by Tony Ross
- Narrator
- Clare Balding
- Duration
- 3 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 September 2017
- ISBN
- 9780241322062
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audio download edition of The Racehorse Who Disappeared written and read by Clare Balding. Life is slowly getting back to normal for Charlie after her reluctant racehorse, Noble Warrior, won the Derby and saved her family from financial ruin. But drama soon returns to Folly Farm when thieves break into the farmyard in the dead of night and kidnap Noble Warrior! With the police baffled and no trace of the prizewinning thoroughbred to be found, Charlie launches her own investigation...
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