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Chasing painted horses Cover Image Book Book

Chasing painted horses / a novel by Drew Hayden Taylor.

Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962- (author.).

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"On the cusp of becoming teenagers, Ralph, his sister Shelley, and their friend William, befriend Danielle, an odd girl in their school. She draws an extraordinary horse in a competition created by Ralph's mother. It's the kind of drawing no child -- or adult, for that matter -- should be able to draw. It will haunt Ralph into adulthood, because it represents everything wrong in Danielle's life and everything she wished her life could be. As teenagers and later adults, Ralph, Shelley, and William are struck, trying to figure out what the horse means to the girl, and how they can help."--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781770865600 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 269 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Cormorant Books, [2019]

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Subject: Friendship > Fiction.
Children's drawings > Fiction.
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Genre: Psychological fiction.

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Lakeshore Branch FIC Taylo 31681010172039 FICTION Checked out 08/02/2025
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  • Univ of Toronto Pr
    Winner of the 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Award


    When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph’s reaction to the horse and calls out to him. Over the course of a morning’s worth of hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph and the homeless man talk and Ralph remembers a troubling moment from his childhood when an odd little girl, Danielle, drew the most beautiful and intriguing horse on his mother’s Everything Wall, winning the competition set up for children on the Otter Lake Reserve.

    Ralph has lived with many questions that arose from his eleventh winter. What did the horse mean — to him, his sister, his best friend, and, most importantly, the girl who drew it? These questions have never left him.

    Chasing Painted Horses has a magical, fablelike quality that will enchant readers, and haunt them, for years to come.

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