That’s especially interesting as you think about how the animals would have experienced their adventures. The story is told through the horse’s point of view. My daughter gave me this wonderful book for Christmas. James Pigg is one of the 20 horses Scott took with him. Posts about Iain Lawrence written by Darlene. Their success prompted the race southward.īecause the race took place in frigid, blizzard conditions and because this was in a time before cars, trucks and jeeps, the explorers used animals to help carry them and their equipment Robert Peary and Frederick Cook had reached the North Pole. The book is set in 1910 just after American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook had reached the North Pole. His latest novel, The Winter Pony, comes out this week and is available at Pages. The history in this story is a real-life race between Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen to be the first person to reach the South Pole. In 2011, Iain Lawrence received the 20,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for. That means it is based on real events in history but some of the events come from the author’s imagination. Award-winning author Iain Lawrence presents this modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay. This is an exciting, thrilling, sometimes sad, historical novel. This is a book about a horse named Pigg, James Pigg that is.
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