Favourite childhood horse books/novels

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As a follow on from Famous showjumpers of times gone by... I got all nostalgic.

My favourite book from my childhood was A Horse Called September by Anne Digby. Does anyone remember it?
 
God I had this book in a red cover, with photographs in it of a girl and maybe a friend and her horse, a lovely bay mare - cannot remember what the horse was called, but it was a lovely book.

The ones about Jinny and Shantih. The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis..
 
I still have a battered copy of A Horse Called September, I've re-read it soo many times.

Jinny & Shantih books were great too, that was the wild arab horse wasn't it?
 
jesstickle said:
I loved the Jill books. Anyone remember them. With Black boy and Rapide?

O and books by the Pullein-Thompson sisters too :)
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I remember Jill's Gymkana! I think I read every Pullein Thompson sisters book I could find too. Christine was the best, I loved The Phantom Horse stories :D
 
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I had ALL the Jill books and still have. My daughter has read them too. Think my favourite was Jill & The Perfect Pony.

Also enjoyed the books about the wild horse tamed in Virginia by an English girl - think it was called Phantom.
 
I can't remember the name of my favourite book :( It was one my mum had when she was younger about a girl whose parents moved the the country and she got a skinny horse her cousins called Toastrack but she renamed Cavelier. She had a cocker spaniel too. Wish I could remember what it was called!! There was a sequel that I also loved :)
 
zalacca said:
I can't remember the name of my favourite book :( It was one my mum had when she was younger about a girl whose parents moved the the country and she got a skinny horse her cousins called Toastrack but she renamed Cavelier. She had a cocker spaniel too. Wish I could remember what it was called!! There was a sequel that I also loved :)
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A think it's A Pony for Jean by Joanna Cannan, the Pullein-Thompson sisters' mum :)

http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/pb1/cannanhome.html

If you read the PT's joint autobiography, there really was a Cavalier/Toastrack.
 
SusannaF said:
A think it's A Pony for Jean by Joanna Cannan, the Pullein-Thompson sisters' mum :)

http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/pb1/cannanhome.html

If you read the PT's joint autobiography, there really was a Cavalier/Toastrack.
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Thats it! Thank you :) Mum still has the books but theyve been sent off to a friend of hers to restore them. I would LOVE my own copy one day tho, must start scouring ebay :)
 
Dream of Fair Horses by Patricia Leitch. Loved that book. So sad at the end.

Loved The Phantom books and the Shantih books. Wish they weren't out of print. It's such a shame these fantastic books aren't still available for the present generation.
 
I loved the Jill books, particularly the bits about her Mother's whimsical stories and Martin, the RAF guy who instructed her. There was the riding school owner who had the super hunter called Blue Cloud? or Blue something, and they would all jump at least 4'0 to win the under-14 jumping at the local show, whereas as my local show the U-14 was about 2'3", all very feeble in comparison!

There was one P-T book which really damaged me though psychologically.... it was called A Day To Go Hunting, and it was seriously depressing, about the day from hell, with fog and getting lost, injured horses and falling off. It really put me off!
 
are the jill book about a girl who lives with her mother only and gets given a (piebald?) pony who she keeps in the garden in the shed and learns to ride Wearing her school mac while the local (snobby) riding school go past?
If so, i loved them too! If not, what am i thinking of?
Loved all the jinny books, wanted to move up there, used to try to work out exactly ehere it was on the map!!
 
The Jill books and the P-T books particularly Radney Riding Club which still makes me laugh now especially the familly with the black hogged pony Golly who galloping round the field while the owner was on her neck making train noises.
 
All the above, plus the Tamsin and Rissa series,. especially "Wish for a Pony" Oh yes and the Punchbowl farm series, all by Monica Edwards.
 
jpj said:
All the above, plus the Tamsin and Rissa series,. especially "Wish for a Pony" Oh yes and the Punchbowl farm series, all by Monica Edwards.
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Monica Edwards was great as was/is K M Peyton; all stories that you could see yourself doing if you had the chance.

Anyone remember the Young Horse Dealers about two girls who set up as dealers and the ponies they bought and sold including Seaspray and Seamist I think; one of them broke a leg over a five bar gate (I always remember the gory bits!)
Primrose Cummings was very good, I loved Four Rode Home the best.
Also loved Gillian Baxter books about Bobby and Shelta.

Can't think why anyone was put off by the Hunting series, they were very down to earth and covered all sorts of situations that happen in a normal hunting season.
 
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