Favourite childhood horse books/novels

Lexie81 said:
I love this thread!!

I have to say, I have bought her lots of modern pony books and not one compares to the old ones. The stories are rubbish and so sugar coated, I love the fact that the old books tell of ponies being PTS, of accidents, disapointements, hard work and good manners. They teach to put your pony first and that you are not always going to win.

so thanks to good old Ebay i am eagerly awaiting todays post for the first two books in my new collection, Jills Gymkhana and Jill has 2 ponies. Can anyone tell me the author of the Jill and Shantih books? I can't remember her name......

who has read First Pony by Patricia Leitch? That is the one book i still have from my old collection, my daughter is reading it now.
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It's always a good thread, there was a great one last year that ran for pages too.

Ruby Ferguson was the Jill author but can't think of the Shantih ones because I didn't like them (can hear others hold up their hands in horror! Truth was, they're too young to have been around in my childhood and I read one from the charity shop and wasn't impressed, it's now waiting to go on ebay although I'm still re collecting my Monica Edwards, Gillian Baxter and KM Peyton ones)

You're right, nothing compares to the older books; they taught us so much and they tell it like it is; perhaps that's why we have so many fluffy bunnies around because they haven't had to face up to things, even just in a story line which can help prepare you for the real thing.

Look on Jane Badger's site, she has a great collection too.
 
Have just picked up this thread after internet problems (again). With regard to the Monica Edwards books and Maesfen's post, I lived in Surrey when I was studying years ago. I happened to notice an illustration in one of the books, it may have been No Mistaking Corker, and thought, hang on, that looks exactly like a feature of the local church- the illustration was of a horse wedged in a gap in the church boundary wall. It turned out that I was living in the village where the Punchbowl books were set and could see the actual farmhouse that was the model. It felt very strange to have started out reading all her books endlessly (and all the others - I lived in the local library and begged for book tokens for Christmas and birthdays) when I was a city child in Liverpool with no apparent hope of any sort of country life or ponies as in the books and then to end up actually living in exactly the spot. Not in a farmhouse surrounded by animals and horses and ponies of course -I've had to wait even longer for that!
 
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