This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this classic tale of a girl & her horse. Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning & training horses one day. When she & her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence they decide to follow Velvets dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed to ride in the race? & can The Pie really win the most prestigious prize in all of steeplechasing? A horse-racing classic National Velvet" has entertained generations of horse lovers with dreams of riding in races themselves."