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| Edition: | Aladdin (Paperback) |
| Author: | Marguerite Henry |
| Published: | December 2006 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| ISBN 10: | 1416927867 |
| New: | $2.69 (47) |
| Used: | $0.01 (109) |
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The novel is a fictionalised biography of the Godolphin Arabian, an ancestor of the modern thoroughbred. Sham is foaled in Morocco and tenderly nurtured by Agba, a mute slave boy, but is sent to France as a gift for King Louis XV of France as a young horse. The king's advisors, however, think the stallion small, skinny, and ill-formed compared to their own horses and Sham is reduced to pulling the palace cook's cart. After many adventures, Agba and Sham come to live at a great estate, Godolphin. Here, after Sham sires three champion racehorses, Lath, Cade, and Regulus, he becomes a famous racing stud.
King of the Wind won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.
