This is a water damage sale!. The bottom of the box has some slight water damage. Readers journey to the Green Mountain country of Vermont "when America was growing up" in this tale to meet young Joel Goss and a reddish-brown colt named Little Bub. When his schoolteacher, Justin Morgan, asks the lad to break the colt in, Joel is thrilled as he knows there is something special about the colt. Soon word about Little Bub spreads throughout the entire Northeast - this spirited colt can pull heavier loads than a pair of oxen and run faster than Thoroughbreds!