All the king's horses [Hardcover]

Michael Foreman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1977

A princess who prefers to spend her time riding across the grasslands of Asia will only marry a man she can respect, one who can wrestle with her.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Bradbury Press (1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878881158
• ISBN-13: 978-0878881154
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,153,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not so good, February 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: All the King's Horses (Hardcover)

I remember having this book read to me as a kid, our aging old granny of a teacher who was a dedicated feminist read it to us not once but twice during a single month. I must say as a male the ending I thought was offensive and uncalled for, and I remember being quite shoced with it at the time. What did the woodcutter do to deserve his punishment exactly? being handsome and mucular? being poor? trying to woo the princess and not fight her? he is sincere and kind and she just kicks the poor guys ass.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Princess vs the Musclebound dunces, January 27, 2004

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Jenny (hot hunks) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All the King's Horses (Hardcover)

as the previous reviewers stated, this is a great book for girls.
I picked up a copy at the local second hand book store. I read it to my primary school class, and they loved it -well the girls did anyway!
It has a great character the girls really loved, the Princess is beautiful, strong and certainly not a damsel in distress. She prefers to wrestle and explore the lands on her horse. She loves independence and goes against her father because she refuses to marry. The princess finally strikes a deal wwith her father she will marry a man =but only one she cannot defeat in a wrestling match, for every man she throws out of the ring 100 horses will be freed.
So she wrestles the Kings men, dominating each one ,muscleman after muscleman. It really is a hoot when they go end up bruised, broken limbed and crying, after thier macho declarations that a 'mere woman' will be easy to defeat.(well the girls loved it anyway!)
The last wrestler, a handsome musclebound woodcutter tries to trick the princess, but she outwits him, outwrestles him, and overpowers him, saving her most crushing and embarresing defeat for him, his bulging muscles are no match for the princesses inner strength and power. (this hot hunk is no-longer such a prettyboy once the princess is through with him!)Its a rousing and funny climax amusingly drawn by the illustrator.
This is definitley a well written excellently drawn and fun book, with an important message of female strenght and independence, comes with my highest recommendation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book with a good message, May 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: All the king's horses (Hardcover)

the message is of anti-sexism and sexual equality. This book is a great empowerng picture book for girls, and also as valuableto read to boys, it shows to them to respect women, and a good message for young boys seem to worship the macho world of wrestling and musclemen; a big muscular body dosn't add up to being strong or tough.