When I was a kid, about 13 or 14 or so, I had a Sweet Valley High book. Don't ask me why. It wasn't my usual fare and I have no idea how I got it. But my school was having a book swap so I took it in and swapped it for this, which was fantasy and myth and everything I liked, and it was the best book swap I've ever done. The Moon Stallion quickly rocketed up the ranks of my favourite childhood reads, and it's stayed in the upper echelons ever since. It's not perfect, few books are, but when I did my OE, over in England, I went to visit Wayland's Smithy and the White Horse at Uffington entirely because of this book. And yes, I did the turn-around-three-times-in-the-horse's-eye, and no I didn't see anything but grass and chalk. I was delighted anyway.

Apparently it's based on a tv series (which I knew, because of the cover) and that series, decades old itself now, has been put on YouTube, so guess what I'm doing tonight. That's right, watching The Moon Stallion. I hope it's as good as the book.