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SEAHORSE EXPLANATION
book & model of wooden horse
 THE ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE WOODEN HORSE
by Ursula Moray Williams
This story was read to me when very young, the best story for anyone over 5, maybe a bit older depending how they can deal with disasters (which always end all right in this book). It saved me when I began teaching a class of 40 eight year olds in what was then slummy Fulham. I struggled unsuccessfully to deal with impossible demands. The only time I got perfect silence was the end of the day when I read a chapter of this classical masterpiece. I had made a miniature model of the little wooden horse (see left) which I first gave to a boy incapable of  sitting still.  He held it as though it were fine glass. I had said I would give it to a different person each session. He sat frozen every afternoon session until the book was finished, hoping for another turn.
​ Luckily his maths wasn't good. 
seahorses & wooden horse
                                                  WHY SEAHORSES?
The biggest adventure the little wooden horse had was when he was swimming back across the ocean to save his poor ill master. He had his hollow wooden tummy filled with gold coins. He was accosted by beautiful wicked seahorses who tried to drown him for daring to call himself a horse.

​At a later date
, I entered seahorses for a competition for a vandal proof sculpture for a marina. I was short listed but did not get the commission.

​Later still here he is in an exhibition inspired by books for children in Kaleidoscope Gallery in Sevenoaks.
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​Later still, before it was too late, I succumbed and got it cast with Tassis in Athens WWW.vptassis.gr .


                                                  
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