Nikki longs to own the beautiful rocking horse in the toy shop more than anything else. It has a tasselled mane, a sweeping swishing tail and, best of all, it gallops so fast that the whole toy shop seems to go flying past. So when Nikki's Mum tells her that the rocking horse is too expensive, Nikki is terribly disappointed. Then Mum has an idea; she joins the toy maker's woodwork class and makes Nikki a rocking horse of her very own. But to their dismay this rocking horse just won't gallop, until the toy maker works his magic on it -- and Nikki's dream comes true at last!

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Peter Utton is a popular illustrator and a Smarties Prize winner, acclaimed for his atmospheric art. For Orchard, he has illustrated The Orchard Book of Legends of King Arthur. Professor Alan Brown teaches at Southern Methodist University in the USA. He is a memory expert who has spent more than thirty years researching how students learn.