- King of the Wind
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name = King of the Wind
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author =Marguerite Henry
illustrator = Wesley Dennis
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher =Rand McNally
release_date = 1948
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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isbn = NA & reissue ISBN 0-7862-2848-2
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followed_by ="King of the Wind" is a novel by
Marguerite Henry that won theNewbery Medal for excellence in Americanchildren's literature in1949 . It was made into a 1990 movie.Plot summary
The novel is a fictionalised biography of the
Godolphin Arabian , an ancestor of the modernthoroughbred . Sham is foaled inMorocco and tenderly nurtured by Agba, a mute slave boy, but is sent to France as a gift for KingLouis 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.
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