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A book in the series Language in Action
designed to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The story is about a boy called Red Foal who is too hot in the sun wearing a coat made of buffalo skin so he put it over a rock. He met a goat who offered to get the coat when it threatened to rain. The rock was angry to lose the coat he had been given so Red Foal and the goat jumped into a hole.
The title was translated into Dutch and published in 1979 by Dijkstra, Zeist as De jas van Rood Veulen.
(Last updated on 30/11/2020)
● First edition
Author: J.L. Carr
Year: March 1974
Reprinted: 1975
Project Director: Joyce M. Morris
Artist: Susan Richards
Publisher: Macmillan Education Ltd
ISBN: 0 333 16595 0
Size: 215 x 151 mm
Pages: 24 pp
Binding: decorated card covers
Price: none stated
Printed by: Ebenezer Baylis & Son Ltd, Leicester
Notes: There are copies in the National Library of Scotland and at Trinity College, Dublin, but not in the British Library.
An ISBN search lists this book as published by Nelson Thornes.
Front cover