The jacket with its beguiling picture of the old mare, Kristie, familiar to children who read Here Comes Kristie, and the colt that was a birthday present for the twins, will capture the insatiable horse story market, and there's another horse story in the collection. Five simple and thoroughly likable stories against a Great Lakes area background. The fact of their being short stories gives it special appeal in the Read Aloud section as a family book; while third and fourth graders can read it to themselves.