• Written and illustrated by Imre Hofbauer.
• Hungarian Traditional songs translated into english by Lawrence Wolfe.
• Collins, Londres et Glasgow, 1947.
  

On the plains of Hungary was raised a filly foal of such beauty and perfection that all who saw her were once filled with the desire for possession. She was christened “Bababukra” by the young girl whose love for her persistent through the long years of separation. This is the story of Bababukra’s adventurous life, with powerful portraits of all the owners, kind and cruel, to whom she passed. First stolen by the Gipsy, Varju… gambled away by Pan Taddeus, a rich Polish merchant… then a war horse in the revolution which swept Europe in 1848. Captured by the Russians… race-horse of the Grand Duke… equestrian model to a Scots sculptor. And so she grew old –became a “back number”– became a van horse– and at last returned to the one who first cared for her and whom she had never forgotten.
There is a fascinating and elusive quality about both text and illustrations in this beautiful book which at once captures the imagination. It is an Eastern “Black Beauty”. A peculiar harmony of smooth persuasive prose and forceful, arresting colour make it outstanding among children’s book.

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