Jills pony books, Jinny etc..What did you read?

Jinny series - still have them (I think they are probably more than a little responsible for a lot of people riding round on Chestnut Arabs now!), loads of factual ones and Ticket to Ride by Caroline Akrill but never read the rest of that series. I also liked Pagur Ban books - not strictly speaking pony books but lots of horses in them.
 
My favourite were the Jill books. I re-read the whole lot recently and they were just as good as I remembered them!
I also liked the Pullein-Thompson books, Follyfoot, Worlds End and Jinny and Shantih.
I also had the Pony mag delivered every week and like you Diamonddogs was surprised at how it has changed. My old 70's mags in the attic look so much more grown up (and all in black and white) than the current one.
 
blimey, this brings back a few memories

I had the jill books, the jinny books, the black stallion ones, I think I had every one that you could get your hands on so pretty much complete sets, I read anything by the pullien-thompson sisters although i preferred the ones by Josephine, monica dickens. Didn't get on with the flicker ones suprisingly. re read the flambards ones the other week.

I also was a member of the H&P YRC too
 
Oh this is taking me back to my childhood. Am so happy I am not alone with reading nothing but horse books.

My fave was the Jinny books (Started my passion for arabs)
Pullen-thompson books - all the sisters
The Jill books
Silver brumby
Monica Dickens books - esp talking of horses
All the Flambards books too

Whatever happened to H&P magazine?
 
They still have H&P, saw it in WHS the other day......they stopped doing it for a while and put some kids stuff in Your Horse, but obviously they changed their minds again!
 
My friend & I are being subjected, sorry introduced, to Follyfoot by our respective Mums!

Thank god it's accompanied by a chinese & wine!

La la the lightning tree...
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I loved Jinny & H&P too.

ETS, oh Flambards, I loved those books!
 
I loved Saddle Club and the Shantih books!! Also there was a series about a black horse and i remember one had an irish wolfhound in it that was killing sheep-loved that book!!!

Loved the Thoroghbred books too
 
I have been having a clear out and have just found Pat Smythe's autobiography. I've put it by my bed so that I can read it again. It was an old book when I got it by the way so don't go thinking that I'm about 90!
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I've still got all my books, Jill, Jackies, Jinny, Silver Brumby, Phantom horse, Flicka and Pullein-Thompson books. My favourite was The Impossible Horse (first romance lol). Moved on to Jilly Cooper's Riders series as I got older. Rupert Campbell-Black was my hero.
 
Two of my favourite childhood, non-fiction pony books are -

The Young Rider - Ponies for Health and Pleasure by Golden Gorse (First published 1928) and

The Young Rider's Picture Book by Golden Gorse (First published 1936).

I love the old b/w pictures in these - most of the riders are hatless and some of the jumping positions are out of this world.
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The foxing of the pages and the musty smell of them makes them all the more wonderful!
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somebody mentioned the book Jump to the Top - I remember that, loved it. Also enjoyed one of Patricia Leitch's I think it was called Horse for the Holidays, it was about an eventer called Meridian.
Of the Follyfoot books my favourite was Dora at Follyfoot, the one featuring the Midnight Pony Steeplechase.
 
Oh I loved all the Pullein-Thompson and Ruby Ferguson books, the Radney Riding Club series was really good and educational.

I still have most of them in the study and re-read them when suffering insomnia or when up all night with the child for whatever reason.
 
My mum used to have the jill books when she was little and passsed them onto me. As an xmas prezzie i managed to get the whole collection off ebay and she burst into tears!! i forgot how great they were and our fave phrase when having trouble getting ready for competitions is "what would Jill do??"
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I've still got all my Jill books, all my Shantih / Jinny books and loads of the Pullein-Thompson sister's books - the ones about Augusta and Christina were my favourites (Augusta was poor and Christina was rich but they were best friends, Augusta's pony was called Daybreak I think and christina had a wolfhound puppy and three very posh ponies. One called Solo, one called..... no can't remember the rest LOL.

Loved the Follyfoot ones too as well as the obligatory National Velvet/Black Beauty etc. Also loved the Black Stallion books and my favourties to this day are the Bobby/Shelti stories.

The only ones I never really clicked with were the Phantom Horse books. Dunno why but the always seemed to be more about girls and boys than horses. Maybe I just read the wrong ones though.
 
haha DraytonsBarney your mum made me smile when she said 'what would jill do?' I'm deffo gonna have to start reading them!

I was a silver brumby fan myself tehe.
 
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