The Lost Horses is the first book in the series Journeys with Giants by Christine Watt. It is the first horse book in young adult literature to bring into focus the plight of the heavy draft horses. The book is a fantasy with a stringent thread of reality running through the story. The story promotes high moral values, truth and compassion and a love of our planet and nature, our only home in the vast wilderness of space.

The story is fictitious and all the human characters are fictitious, but the horse characters are based on our very real Heavy Draft horses.

It is a fantasy adventure story for young adults about a horse mad young lad, Tommy Clark and his adventurous best friend Jessica. They discover that they can talk to horses and a rollicking adventure ensues. Accompanied by Mr Tobbs, Tommy’s Percheron horse they follow Hector (one of The Great Ones) to the Elysian Fields (the horse’s paradise) where they embark on a dangerous mission.

Time traveling back fifty million years to the time of the Dawn Horse, Daya, the oracle of all the horses; they are charged with finding the lost heavy draft horses of the past and securing a future for them – Their adventure takes them on a journey to the Star Periscope at the centre of the universe and beyond the boundaries of time. Back home, they travel backwards and forwards in time – shapeshifting into different creatures to spy on the nasty Fuller-Bottom twins to uncover their dreadful plan for the unborn foals. Finally they time travel back to the crusades to find the prophetic Solomon’s Stone where they are openly challenged by the Dark Horseman.