Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

by Mary Hogan

A complete retelling of the film featuring images from the movie. This popular, full color format is the story of Spirit, a stallion of the American West, and his quest to regain his freedom. Told from Spirit's point of view, this is the perfect book for younger fans of the film and horse lovers everywhere!

Genres: Picture Books, Historical Fiction, Horses

32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 29, 2002

Reviews

[Miranda Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

This movie is such a core memory for me...that I couldn't help but to pick up the book version for my little one.

For the uninitiated - Spirit was a 2002 movie following a wild mustang stallion (named Spirit) as he lived, was captured, freed, and saved many horses. I'm not doing it justice - but let's just say that this movie jump started my horse girl era.

I mean, I can't be the only one who...may have fallen a bit in love with Spirit as a child. (RIGHT?)

This book follows the movie from major plot-point-to-plot-point, complete with long-ish paragraphs explaining what was happening on the screen at that time.

It was a fun way to re-experience the original movie (though, nothing truly comes close to seeing it in theaters for the very first time).

Also, can we talk about that soundtrack for the movie? As I read this picture book, I couldn't stop hearing the songs that would go along with the scenes in my head. Gorgeous!

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Notes:
disliked the layout

[Elizabeth]

even tho we JUST watched this, David would look at a frame of pulled directly from the movie and say "that wasn't in it." also colonel is such an outrageously pronounced word.