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

Orangehorse said:
A book, was it called "Lucky Purchase" about a girl who lost her confidence and then started riding a cob that turned out to be really good. But I think it died in the end and my parents came home from a night out and found me crying my eyes out over the book and I wouldn't tell my mother why!
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I love that book. It's be Pamela MacGregor Morris, and yes the pony does die and it makes me cry too. I quote that bit in my book.

Thank you ElleSkyWalker and Maesfen I still read them too. I do have quite a few. We're selling the house at the moment and everyone has asked "Where are the books?" Hidden between the beds for the photo shoot is where.

Capriole I wonder if your book is K M Peyton's Poor Badger? But I'm not absolutely sure. I will ask around.

Elliebrewer98 There's two more in the series: The Perfect Horse and The Difficult Summer. There's pictures of them here: http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/ponybooksfile2/gillianbaxter.html
 
“Claire Forrester had once been pony mad. But that came to an abrupt stop when she and her mount parted company on a trek. So the discovery that her new home came complete with a resident pony was NOT good news. But suprises are in store for Claire, particularly when she finds herself a founder member of the Blackbirds pony group.” [From the DW of Pony At Blackbird Cottage]


That sounds like it :)
 
Capriole said:
JaneBadger, your username has reminded me of a book and I cant think of the details.

Girl moves to the country with parents, not best pleased about it. Small grey pony came with the cottage, left behind by the previous occupants. Eventually girl takes an interest and starts to ride. Pony outgrown (possibly in second or third book in series) and she buys herself a bay with a white face, which she calls Badger (?).

Not sure how much Im remembering was real and how much Im imagining, does anyone else remember it?
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Apologies - I was getting posts mixed up :o

Yes, it's A Pony at Blackbird Cottage.

It had Misty in it and mean twins with ponies called Juno and Icarus that eventually become friends and they form a group called The Blackbirds.

Later on in the series she buys a horse called Brock.
 
casinosolo said:
I'm an English teacher and one of my Year 7s was actually reading a copy of this today:

http://childrensbookshop.com/images/bookimages/70/70579.jpg

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 :)
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Blimey I've still got that book!

For me it was the Jill books, Monica Edwards' Punchbowl Farm books and anything at all by the Pullein-Thompsons. Fabulous.
 
quite honestly you could lock me in a library full of all these old pony books and Id be in heaven. Id love to read them all again. I have one of those mothers who 'disposes' of things however, so much of my lovely old stuff...gone. Would cost a fortune to replace, if it were even possible.

I had the entire series of a old book about a girl called Kit Hunter, show jumper...dont remember much about them but she had adventures.
 
:( I never got to read any pony books as a child. It was Enid Blyton all the way and Nancy Drew. (Think that was enid blyton too). The nearest I got to riding a pony until i was 12, was my sister and I cycling our bikes up and down the road, doing rising trot, breaking our bums off the saddles, pretending they were ponies..... how sad, but great fun!!!
 
I had the entire series of a old book about a girl called Kit Hunter, show jumper...dont remember much about them but she had adventures.[/QUOTE]

I remember that name, but like you, not a lot else!
 
Millikins said:
I had the entire series of a old book about a girl called Kit Hunter, show jumper...dont remember much about them but she had adventures.
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I remember that name, but like you, not a lot else![/QUOTE]

What a mind reader you are - I was about to post that! I read a couple of books - they were sort of mini thrillers - generally involved a baddy or two and I think were set on Dartmoor.....
Something Grange? The three Jays have been mentioned - and they were sort of OK - but little has been said on this thread about horsey autobiographys - I did like Pat Smythe's - Flannigan, my friend was one I think - though she was a bit before my time - but in my youth I found Sheila Wilcox, Lucinda Prior palmer and Ginny Holgate's auto's brilliant.
Also like the racehorse autos......I would give a big thumbs up to Jimmy Frost (local, so knew lots of people he was referencing, Martin Pipe - ditto, Charlie Brooks and Graham Bradley, because they were warts and all characters - hated the Paul Carberry book - ditto Richard Dunwoody. AP - OK - but so driven, Steve Smith Eccles and John Francome - hugely amusing, Fat Face (whoops) I mean the lovely Mr Nicholls - a bit predictable.
And then what of the horse bio's.....Red Rum, Desert Orchid, Persian Punch - are we going to see a Frankel, I wonder - I would certainly buy Henry Cecil's book - but I am guessing that we will not see that in his lifetime - as he not one to cash in........
 
dressedkez said:
little has been said on this thread about horsey autobiographys - I did like Pat Smythe's - Flannigan, my friend was one I think - though she was a bit before my time - but in my youth I found Sheila Wilcox, Lucinda Prior palmer and Ginny Holgate's auto's brilliant.
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Some of the few Ive got left are these ones, Ginny and Lucinda were favourites, Ive got the Pat Smythe and some others I think. Also the story of Penwood Forge Mill. I must get in the attic and see.

I was never interested in racing so havent read any of those, apart from possibly something about Red Rum.
 
dressedkez said:
I remember that name, but like you, not a lot else!
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are we going to see a Frankel, I wonder - I would certainly buy Henry Cecil's book - but I am guessing that we will not see that in his lifetime - as he not one to cash in........[/QUOTE]


Yes, and in time for Christmas too:

Kauto Star: A Steeplechasing Legend (Andrew Pennington), 19 October, £20.00
Frankel, the Wonder Horse (Andrew Pennington, who has obviously been busy) 16 November, £20.00
Eclipse: Nicholas Clee, reissued on 24 December, £10.59. Nook, $14.99

Peter Grey wrote the Kit Hunter books - more pics here: http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/pb1/petergrey.html
 
Tillypup said:
I've just spent a happy hour looking at Jane Badger website which reminded me of Ponies Plot! Anyone else remember this one? Told from the ponies point of view! I've just bought it from eBay too, yay!
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Yes - remember it very well! Still have a rather battered copy..... Might ready it again actually as it was very funny....
 
popeyesno1fan said:
:( I never got to read any pony books as a child. It was Enid Blyton all the way and Nancy Drew. (Think that was enid blyton too).
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Nancy Drew was NOT Enid Blyton :eek: :eek: :eek:

I loved Five Go to Mystery Moor, as it combined ponies and the Famous Five, my two loves as a (very) small child :D
 
The Jill books (I bought them all last year on ebay and read them again :o)
Prince Amoung Ponies, I Had Two Ponies, We Hunted Hounds
The Silver Brumby books
All the Three Jays books by Pat Smythe (I wrote to her and she wrote a lovely letter back to me)
The Wild Heart by Helen Griffiths
Pilot the Chaser by HM Peel (I think)
 
I absolutely loved Prince Among Ponies and Fly By Night

Also remember a book/books with a palomino pony in and a girl I think Lyn or Linda? My obsession with palominos means it sticks in my mind!!

Also a book about a pony called Badger who was neglected and a girl looked after him
 
Ok - I apologise - I read the first few posts, and then skipped to the end... because I just had to post!

The Silver Brumby series was amazing! I bought them all back off eBay as an adult, and re-read them.... Thowra - the creamy silver stallion who outwits 'Man' with his hidden valley, steals 'Golden' - It was just as good a read second time round if not better! :D
 
Pullien- Thompson sisters also rocked! As well as the ones about a girl who won her pony - Was that Jill?

Plus the ones about the girl in scotland with the mad chestnut arab who she used to ride to school... Jinny?
 
elliebrewer98 said:
Are you thinking about a book called the Prize Pony by Josephine Pullein-Thompson? About a girl called Debbie who wins a pony called Easter and at first it was all a massive disaster? Falling off, etc, etc??
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There was also another Prize Pony, by Kathleen Mackenzie I think about winning a pony in a raffle based in London. Haven't read it for years, will have to hunt it out.
 
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