- First published
- 1979
- Editions
- 2 editions
- Status
- In print
Cowardly Clyde
Clyde, a great war-horse who is not the least bit brave, must find his courage when his fearless knight, Sir Galavant, sets out to battle a monstrous owl-eyed, ox-footed ogre.
"Once there was a brave young knight known as Sir Galavant who rode around on a great war-horse shouting, 'Bring on the fire-breathing dragons! Bring on the man-eating giants! Bring on the ogres and trolls! I'll clobber the brutes I will!'"
Bill Peet drew horses for years before this story came together: "For years I made drawings of horses, the great percherons I remembered from my boyhood at the circuses and the state fair." An early attempt, "Clumsy Clyde," about a circus horse, never got off the ground. "Many years later I tried another horse story. This time it was 'Cowardly Clyde'... And cowardly Clyde turned out to be my big percheron horse book."
From the book
Preliminary sketches
