** Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year 1990** A classic junior fiction favourite from multi-award winning New Zealand children's author, Joy Cowley. Shadrach is a very old circus-trained Clydesdale horse, and the favourite family pet. When Hannah discovers that Shadrach has been sold to a dog food factory, she decides to mount a heroic rescue and enlists the help of her two younger brothers. From the beginning their plans go seriously wrong. By the time they've argued with the repulsive Wuff Stuff man, hidden Shadrach in a church and a caravan, and floated him on a mussel barge they're in desperate need of rescuing themselves.

A resource book for students (aged around 10) reading Joy Cowley's award-winning 'Bow Down Shadrach'. Mark Roman reads the novel on three audio CDs in 10-20 minute episodes; many questions and activities are then given, intended to encourage responding to literature and engaging with language. Large size fonts and drawings are intended for photocopying for classroom use.

When Hannah discovers the Rest Home for Aged Equestrian Friends is not what it was made out to be, she mounts a rescue operation to save her elderly Clydesdale, Shadrach.

Features three novels that center around a New Zealand girl, her brothers, and an old circus-trained Clydesdale that becomes the family pet.

The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership within the village sweep Jonasi toward his strange destiny.