Young readers everywhere will share with twelve-year-old Pedro his love for Chúcaro—a perfect colt—in this exciting, warmhearted story of a fascinating, faraway country, a story that introduces a new author of rare talent.

Pedro discocers the wild pony one day when it wanders in to graze in the alfalfa field on the great Argentinian ranch where he lives. Juan, his gaucho friend, lassoes the pony and helps Pedro to train it. Everyones admires it—the handsomest, gentlest pony one could wish for—and all goes happily unti news of the pony reaches the ranch owner. At once he decides that his son Armando—an arrogant and spoiled youth—should have Chúcaro for his own.

Then begins the terrible period for Pedro and Juan and their friends—the time when Pedro fears Chúcaro may be taken from him, and when Juan is threatened with the loss of his job if he refuses to turn Chúcaro over to Armando.

This is much more than a story of a boy and a pony told with action and suspense—it is also a finely etched and unforgettable picture of the vast Argentine Pampa and of those who live on it. Its tenderness, humor, and poetic feeling make it a moving and memorable experience to be enjoyed again and again with deepening pleasure.

From the dust jacket