National Velvet

Enid Bagnold

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HARPER360
18 June 2025

Children's & Educational; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Adventure stories (Children's&YA); Animal stories (Children's&YA)

Series: HarperCollins Children’s Classics

The most famous and loved racing story of all time. National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girl’s belief in a horse.

Velvet’ll sit on a horse like a shadow and breathe her soul into it … I never seen such a creature on a horse.

Fourteen year old Velvet is mad about horses. When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she knows he’s something special. His heart is as big as the five-foot fences he jumps, and he’ll do anything for Velvet. Soon, she and her friend Mi have their sights set on the biggest race in England. But can a girl win the Grand National?

Perfect for horse and ponly lovers from nine to ninety nine years old. The book that inspired the classic film starring Elizabeth Taylor, National Velvet is a true classic of print and screen. Alongside Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka it is one of the great horse books for children.

‘My childhood dreams were based on this book – it was the only place I’d ever seen them come true’ Clare Balding

By: Enid Bagnold
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780008726669
ISBN 10: 0008726663
Series: HarperCollins Children’s Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 18 June 2025
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Enid Bagnold was born in 1889 and was mostly brought up in Jamaica. She was a nurse and a driver in France during the First World War. Enid Bagnold wrote poems, novels and plays, the most famous of which is The Chalk Garden. National Velvet is her most wellknown novel, and remains much-loved to this day.