The Originals: Animals That Time Forgot

They're weird. They're unusual. They have four horns and shaggy red fur. And they haven't changed in hundreds, even thousands of years! They're the originals--animals that, unlike their barnyard relatives, never evolved from their primitive states. Come meet the four-horned Hebridean sheep, brought to Scotland by Viking raiders, the tiny Exmoor ponies that roam the fog-filled moors of England, and the rest of these modern ancients. Jane Yolen's childlike story poems and Ted Lewin's light-infused water-color illustrations capture all the mystique of these remarkable animals.