If You Had a Horse: Steeds of Myth and Legend

from the dustjacket: Hodges engagingly retells 9 stories about noted horses: the Persian prince's Ebony Horse, with whom he rescues his captive princess, from The Arabian Nights; Apollo's thundering steeds, ineptly driven by the Greek Phaeton; the nag that leads Finn MacCool and his fellow Celts to adventure in Land-Under-Wave; the tales of Dapplegrim and of the horse who confounded the gods by building a wall; the Grimm's Falada, only consolation of the bereft Goosegirl; Rustem's mightly Raksh, from the Persian epic Shah Nama; Pecos Bill's faithful companion whose mean temper towards others earned him the name Widow-Maker; the magical Black Horse of Scottish myth.