The Little White Horse is a low fantasy children's novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by the University of London Press in 1946 with illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1992.
Goudge won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Wonderful people and magical beasts aid her, but it is by self-sacrifice and perseverance, too, that Maria can save Moonacre, right the wrongs, reunite lost loves, and finally bring peace to the valley.
[4] In 2008, the book was very loosely adapted into the film The Secret of Moonacre, written by Lucy Shuttleworth and Graham Alborough and directed by Gabor Csupo.
Starring Dakota Blue Richards as Maria,[5] the movie was mostly shot in Hungary and released in February 2009 J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, mentioned that The Little White Horse was her favourite childhood book.