Favourite pony books from your childhood???!!!!

nikicb said:
I tried to order an Oxus book on your recommendation before (for my boys), but I couldn't get one online. My order went through but they came back with an out of stock. :(
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That's a shame, as one of the main characters is male (relatively uncommon in pony books!) so they might have enjoyed it. :( I don't think I still have my copies, or I would send them to you. I think they may have been repossessed by cousins against my will :mad:

Glad I influenced someone though :D
 
I spent the summer tracking down and re-reading all 12 of the Jinny books, loved them 20 years after my first read. Thanks to the early poster who mentioned 'Darkling' i was trying to remember the name of that one recently. It also got well used in our school library!
 
JFTD said:
That's a shame, as one of the main characters is male (relatively uncommon in pony books!) so they might have enjoyed it. :( I don't think I still have my copies, or I would send them to you. I think they may have been repossessed by cousins against my will :mad:

Glad I influenced someone though :D
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Thank you. I'll try again now that I've been reminded! :)
 
Crikey, almost all of these books are like old friends! I had pretty much every one and couldn't really choose a favourite, except for the way Jill gets Black Boy in the first book, I'd always dreamt about something similar happening to me, sadly never did though!

I also have all the Horse Sense binders somewhere, full up, with the gold numbers on the outside! Strangely I refused to take any of the posters out of the middle in case of damage, and yet I haven't looked at them in years. Think my daughter might like them if I dig them out of the loft so thanks for the reminder! :)
 
I didn't like the Jinny ones - she spent far too much time galloping about the moors, and didn't do nearly enough schooling. I did love KM Peyton though - Flambards was (still is tbh) my favourite book ever. Then when I was about 12 I discovered Jilly Cooper, and never looked back.
 
What was the one where the girl had moved house and the house came with a horse!!! After not being interested she ended up going for a ride and thought the kids who said she wasn't dressed properly (hatless) were laughing at her and ended up falling off. It's not at all as heavy as I'm making it sound, there were a few in the series and one of the characters was called Miles. Possibly a Pullien Thompson?

I also loved the ones set in Cornwall, 2 sisters and all their friends. One pony was called Spider and then the older girl got a fab young green horse that was full of bounciness! One of the series was called Star Riders. There was a Felix in it, I'm thinking maybe it was Josephine Pullien Thompson.

You've got me reminiscing now, I really was a besotted ponyless child (now a besotted horseless adult - (well, part loan!).
 
casinosolo said:
I'm an English teacher and one of my Year 7s was actually reading a copy of this today:

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It looked equally old and yellowed and she said it had been her mum's! It's so lovely to think kids still love reading what I did when I was their age :)

Did anyone else also subscribe to 'Horse Sense' magazine in the 80s/ early 90s? I think I still have them all in a ring binder somewhere at my mum's house!
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I remember that book and had every single one of Horse sense magazine. My mum and dad kept them in their loft for 20 years and then recently threw them out when they moved. I was devastated ...I wanted my daughter to have them!
 
I loved horse sense. God knows what happened to my binder. Does anyone remember a book which ended with the girl successfully doing the xc? I can only remember the end which was a run down of that. Would love to know what it was
 
Mrs C said:
I loved horse sense. God knows what happened to my binder. Does anyone remember a book which ended with the girl successfully doing the xc? I can only remember the end which was a run down of that. Would love to know what it was
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Sounds like Fly By Night - K M Peyton
 
Loved the Jill books. I enjoyed a few of the Pullein-Thompson ones too. My Friend Flicka and the Green Grass of Wyoming too, and the Black Stallion and Slver Brumby books. Flambards wasn't really a horsey book, but I liked it.

I loved a book called The Little White Horse which wasn't exactly about horses, but did have horses in it :). I was also in love with most of the horses in The Lord of the Rings - as well as a Shadowfax, I wanted an Old Fatty Lumpkin (actually, I may have ended up with one of those ;)), and a Stybba, and a Bill the Pony.
 
Absolutely loved ginny and shantih books read them over and over. Also remember a set called blue ribbon. It was American set Connecticut I think, does anyone remember this? One character called dara I think?! Lol x
 
Mrs C said:
Thank you silver. I'll be on eBay tomorrow :-) x
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Hope it's the right one! Even if it's not it's a fab book, I have read it over and over again (even as an adult), there is a sequel called The Team and then others that she is in and lots of her characters meet up in other books.

There is a Jinny one where she rides a xc comp but that's not how it ends.
 
Dream of fair horses by Patricia Leitch LOVED this book and would still high recommend this to anyone that has not read it. See below - still can visual the cover to this day!

http://ponybooks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=reviews&action=display&thread=113

Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell

The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley

The Pullen Thompson sisters many, many books and I adored the Phantom Horse series

Misty of Chincoteague can't remember who by

Silver Star by Joseph Chipperfield - a hard to find book now

My friend Flicka, Thunderhead etc...


I am sure there are many, many more.... Monica Edwards
 
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The Ruby Ferguson ones, and Pullein Thompson and Rosina Copper and the My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming trilogy by Mary O'Hara. Basically any story that featured a horse in the late 1960s/early 1970s :D
 
jnhuk said:
Dream of fair horses by Patricia Leitch LOVED this book and would still high recommend this to anyone that has not read it. See below - still can visual the cover to this day!
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Have just ordered this from Amazon on this recommendation (oops but I loved Patricia Leitch!)
 
Lots of happy memories of super books. Does anyone remember The Ten Pound Pony, can't remember the author. A family of children do odd jobs to earn the required £10 to buy the pony. Afraid that the price rather shows its age. As a ponyless child I had many dreams of doing the same. Sadly my first horse cost rather more!
 
Ruby Ferguson and the Jill books without a doubt! Still have several of them in hard back!! But check out The Horse of Hurricane Hill - amazing pencil sketches/illustrations. The Pullein-Thompson sisters always a favourite.
 
Silvermiyazawa said:
Hope it's the right one! Even if it's not it's a fab book, I have read it over and over again (even as an adult), there is a sequel called The Team and then others that she is in and lots of her characters meet up in other books.

There is a Jinny one where she rides a xc comp but that's not how it ends.
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If it's about a dun pony who banks a table during the xc at the end, it's one of the riders series by Samantha Alexander (which I think I incorrectly referred to as the eventers series earier in this thread).

The K M Peyton books are better ;)
 
Anything by the pullien Thompsons, jinny, & Jill. My 7yr old is currently reading misty of chincoteague which I picked up from a car boot years ago to replace my copy. Also stienbacks the red pony, but too sad to be a favourite. That, black beauty, & watership down upset me as a young child, although conversely at the same age I watched & read adult horror cheerfully.
 
I loved 'Jill's Gymkhana' by Ruby Ferguson, where she buys Black Boy, learns to ride and then wins all the red rosettes at Chatton Show.

Josephine Pullein Thompson's 'Pony Club' series about the Woodbury Pony Club were brill. I even named my first pony Saffron (despite being a bay) after the dun Saffron in the book! Do you remember the 2 sisters? The pretty one was the mother's favourite and had thr best ponies but couldn't ride very well whilst the other sister was treated awfully by her mother, had the cheap ponies but was a real natural.

Diana Pullein Thompson's 'Ponies in Peril' where a field of ponies were all going for meat so the children bought them and then had to break them in and sell them. All the ponies were named after games - Patience, Jigsaw, Tiddlywinks.

The 'Jinny' series was great but my favourite Patricia Leitch books were 'Jump to the Top' and 'Dream of Fair Horses'. If you had the same edition of 'Jump to the Top' as me then you might remember the photo of Flicka the black pony. I wanted that pony so much!

I refused to ever get rid of the books so I'm sure that they're all still in my parents' loft at home. All this reminiscing is making me want to read them all again. Do children still read these books?
 
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