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When eight-year-old Kirstie and her family go beachcombing near their home in Scotland, she finds something that looks like a giant fish egg, which is just too interesting to leave on the beach. So she brings it home and sneaks it into the bathtub overnight. The next morning, she is surprised to find that the egg has hatched, but the newborn is unlike anything anyone has s...more

Published November 13th 2007 by Yearling Books (first published January 1st 1990)

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Horse Sandals Black Horses For The King

Shelves: childrens, fiction, fantasy, 20th-century, european-literature, british-literature

The characters were so lovable and I wish there had been more action, but it's understandable given the context.

Listened to this 1.5 hour Audible book with my three sons, aged 11, 10 and 8. We all loved it!

Oct 11, 2013Michael Fierce marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-book, hot-list, cryptid, nessie

The wonderfully perfect family adventure film of the same name is based on this book.

Mar 03, 2018Keith (CHINNY) Chinn rated it really liked it

The waterhorse is a adventure by dick king-smith who likes animals and who likes writs books for children.
kistie and he her brother Angues find a egg.The next day it hatches in the shed.The Waterhorse and Angues has lots of adventures on the water.
I like the Waterhorse jumps on the het ,the het is attached to a horse. The house fell on catapault a explod and dost of men in the water.
I recommend this book to year 6. In conclusion i give this book 10/10 because its interesting for children. The mo...more

Genre: Fantasy Junior Book
Summary: When Kirstie decides to take what looks like a giant mermaid’s purse up to her house to keep, she did not expect to hatch a water horse. With the help of her brother Angus, her grandfather Grumble, her mom and her dad, Kirstie works hard to feed and care for her new pet, Crusoe.
Critique: a) Being a fantasy book means bringing in a magical aspect to the story. A fictional, mythical creature, a water horse, is one of the main characters in this book.
The water h...more

Dec 17, 2015Robin Hatcher rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I have loved the movie of The Water Horse from the first time I saw it. I finally got around to listening to the children's book that inspired it. I would say that only about 5% to 10% of the movie comes from the book. There are far more differences than similarities. But that isn't to say I didn't enjoy the book. It's a quick read/listen but still entertaining. I have given the book 4 stars, trying to think like a child. For an adult, I suppose it would be 3 stars, but only because adults are n...more

Aug 24, 2017Emmkay rated it really liked it

Shelves: children-s-and-teens, 2017-reads, fiction

Sweet children's book about a sister and brother in interwar Scotland who discover and raise a sea-monster. Sometimes there's nothing like a good kids' book as a palate cleanser.

Feb 10, 2013Debbie Reiber rated it it was amazing

The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith is a children’s fantasy fiction book. The intended age group for this book is Intermediate. The book is about a brother and sister that discover an egg on the beach and hatch it in the bathtub. The grumpy grandfather finds joy in the creature and the family struggles to find a new, nearby home for the creature as it grows enormous within a short couple of years.
I liked how they used many similes to describe the water horse because it broke down the parts of the...more

Apr 18, 2014Gilles rated it liked it

I read this with my daughter for her third grade book club. I liked the adventure and the love and care of the water horse by the main character children.
It was fun that they call their Grandfather Grumbles because he does. I like how Grumbles is instantly on board with helping the children with the creature and how much he enjoys being involved. I like grumpy people with soft hearts.
I identified with the busy mom who's husband is at sea for months at a time and doesn't want to deal with the w...more

Mar 30, 2008Corinne Edwards rated it liked it

Shelves: xavier, on-the-water, fantasy, childrens-literature, sheely, see-the-movie, read-outloud-to-my-kids, 2007, scotland

My kids really enjoyed this book about how the Loch Ness monster ended up in Loch Ness. The water horse is a gentle giant and the conflicts in this story are extremely mild. Not really much action at all, but it held the interest of my 7 1/2 and 5 year olds very well. I liked the descriptions of the Scottish countryside - and the grandfather was by far the most developed character. The other characters (even the main children) seemed very one dimensional to me, but i don't think that King-Smith...more

Mar 21, 2016Jemma rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

An adorable book about a scottish family who find a water horse.
I love scottish things, I love the Loch Ness Monster, I loved this book

Jul 16, 2015Virginia added it · review of another edition

Not sure how to rate a full-on children's book, as I haven't read many since I aged out of them, but this one was really sweet, fun and enjoyable. Can't wait to share it with a niece or nephew.

Nov 22, 2015Suzy Kennedy rated it really liked it

A cute little story. I highly recommend it to read with children. Full of imagination and wonder.

Nov 15, 2012Sabrina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Read first time 2/2-13 = 5/5 stars
Reread 11/6-16 = 4/5 stars

Jan 01, 2008Heather

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Recommends it for: everyone but especially young (at heart) readers

This is one of those rare times when the book and the movie are both worth the time, and different beasties from one another.

Sep 26, 2015ＳℓιM rated it it was amazing

I liked it. It was an interesting little book can't complain some parts made me laugh though. But other then that it wasn't that bad for a kid book lol. >>> listen to it on audible

This book is an exciting tale of a sea creature. It all starts with a girl named Kirstie. When she was walking on the loch's bay she saw something that reminded her of a mermaids purse. She and her brother took the mermaids purse in to there house and put it in there bathtub. Through out the night the thing hatch in to a creature. In the morning the kids measured it and it was about 2 feet long. With in 2 days it had a name, Crusoe , and grew 5 more feet. The kids where able to pick it up and pu...more

Sweet. Simple. Just fine.

Dec 14, 2011Keri Payton added it

When Kirstie and her little brother Angus discover a strange egg, they take it home to see if it will hatch. What they discover is something extraordinary - a water horse.
With the help of their family, the two children name the water horse Crusoe and keep him. It isn't long until Crusoe is growing bigger and bigger and at more risk of being noticed.
Can they keep the water horse safe or will he be discovered?
I decided to purchase the audio book of this novel for the simple reason that it was narr...more

Mar 03, 2011G rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I finished this last night. I started it about 3 days ago and never got around to finishing it because I was kind of disheartened that I didn't have The Stray by DKS, too. But after Jeralyn bought it, I guess it kind of motivated me to finish this book. And finish this book, I did!
03-02-11, 11:52PM--
Aww. The Water Horse is such a nice story. I thought, while going into it, that it would be a boring story (hell, I even slept a while ago while reading it), but after reading it.. Gosh! So nice!
It's...more

Jun 23, 2008Barbara rated it liked it

This book wins the prize for shortest period of time between me watching the movie and finishing the book. I watched the movie on a flight between Jo’burg and London, and noticed it was based on a book by Dick King-Smith, one of my favorite authors when I was a kid. The movie ended, the plane landed, and a couple of hours later, I came across the book while browsing in a W.H. Smith in Heathrow. As it was under 100 pages long, I proceeded to read it right there in the children’s book aisle.
I disc...more

Jul 29, 2015Emily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I had some much beloved audiotapes as a youngster, so when this popped up as a daily deal, I asked my daughter if she might be interested in it. She said sure, so I purchased it and set it aside until I had to drive her and and her cousin 3 hours back from Girl Scout camp. You would have never known that the car had two rambunctious elementary school girls just off an exciting trip because they were raptly silent for the duration of the book. Well, silent except for the pained protests against C...more

Feb 20, 2011Friend of Pixie (F.O.P.) rated it really liked it

another clear winner from King-Smith. I love reading his books aloud. His dialog is so natural and the stories are full of humor and humanity. He reminds me a bit of E.B. White. This story is about a brother & sister who find a 'mermaid's purse' on the beach, take it home, and put it in the bathtub. But what hatches out is anything but a dogfish! Their grandfather, Grumble, is delighted and they spend the next couple of years caring for and protecting their water horse. The best character is...more

The name of the book I am reading is THE WATER HORSE by DICK KING - SMITH.The book is about these kids who find some sort of egg and the take it back with them. It ends up hatching and the kids have to keep move it because ,how big it keeps getting. The genre of the book is fiction because of all the names, characters, places and incidents are all from the author’s imagination. One interesting character from the book is the water horse because it makes you wonder what it is , this is because the...more

This story was pretty captivating for my two boys as I read it to them. It does not have much adventure or mystery - but is a cute tale about the way two young kids and their Grandpa care for this water creature that hatches out of an egg and grows into a huge water monster. The character development was good. The main boy was a five year old, so we had fun comparing him to my son as we read. My kids loved the pictures here and there throughout the book that helped them more vividly imagine this...more

Jun 30, 2010Olean Public Library rated it it was amazing

-A cute story
-A great tale of a water horse being found unhatched and how the family who found it became closer. Grumble learned to smile again, the children learned great responsibly and grew as Crusoe did.
-Definitely a bit of whimsy and fantasy, it tells of a boy’s care and devotion to a one of a kind, rapidly growing creature. It also describes a warm family relationship in a harsh environment
- A great story about Loch Ness, an interpretation of what people might be seeing or hope to see when...more

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Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children's books.
Dick writes mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites. He enjoys writing for children, meeting the children who read his books, and knowing that they get...more