Lyrico: The Only Horse of His Kind

by Elizabeth Vincent Foster, Joy Buba (Illustrator)

A young girl's greatest wish is fulfilled when a horse is delivered to her New York penthouse--especially since it is a horse with wings

Genres: Animals, Fiction, Childrens

230 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1970

Reviews

[Kayetana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful children's book! Female heroine is a young girl and other character is a flying horse

[Kornelis Sietsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as a kid and utterly loved it. City living, flying horses, mountains... Just lovely. I'd love to re-read it as an adult to see how it holds up.

[Lesa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though Lyrico Is pure fantasy some of the pictures in it are real. Ms. Buba spent years studying what people did when they went on a guided pack trip. I believe that the pictures of the horses in the book were real horses, with real names, like Ace and Bingo. The pictures of the flowers were also real.
I know that Ms. Foster put in some words that were in Latin like the names of the flowers. But that just helps us start to learn that there are Latin names for almost everything in science. I think that this is a good book for a horse crazy child to learn to read with.

[SBC · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was published in the 1970s but it felt old-fashioned as though it was written a hundred years before. A little girl living with rich parents in a tall apartment building is gifted with a pegasid horse, small cousins of the pegasus breed now probably extinct in Greece. She and her family and her babysitter Mary (who also loves horses) go on an adventure in the cowboy West and try to save a beautiful valley from being destroyed by big industry. A sweet enough story but not really my thing.

[Celeste · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked the book, but it was super sad towards the end. I gave it five stars because, even though Lyrico went free in the wild, Mary Carly got married and Jim's horse had a baby at the very end.

[Camryn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book seems like it would be a good book for children. The children that would like it though would notbe able to read it cause it was to advanced. It wasn't advanced for me but it was a waste of my time I think.