Poll: What's your favourite horsey book?

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But I loved about 4 of your options! Christine Pullein- Thompson books (and those by her sisters) were fab, Jill books were wonderful & Jinny books were all about my dream horse, an arab. The only one I haven't read is the Mary Stanton book, might have to try to find that now!
 
No Walter Farley books?
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I loved The Black Stallion books as a child.

http://www.theblackstallion.com/book.html

Also Meredith Ann Pierce's Dark Moon and the Jinny series.
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I had to vote for the saddle club as I had every single one of them, but I also loved the Jill series - we should have been allowed multiple answers!!
 
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I was looking out for Riders & Polo by Jilly Cooper LOL

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Me too! I first read them when I was 9!
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I picked the Jinny series as I loved them, but some of my favourites were by the Pullein-Thompson sisters - "Horse for the Holidays" was a great one and I loved the Pony Club stories.
 
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I was looking out for Riders & Polo by Jilly Cooper LOL

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Me too - like Enid Blyton with sex (where do you think I learnt about birds and bees
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Just found this on another website - I LOVED this book!!!

Joyce Stranger, Zara,1975? I don't have the book, but this is its description from another of her books: "Richard Proud coveted the golden-brown mare from the moment he saw her. Although he couldn't afford Zara, he bought her nevertheless, hoping she would breed him winners - foals that would restore the fortune of the Yorkshire stud where he bred and trained racehorses. Zara was born a winner: she had to be raced. Richard was determined that she should race so - despite personal crises, caused by his reckless wife, by a snowstorm that isolated the stud only a few days before Zara was due to run, and by an accident to her jockey - he had to find a way to let Zara prove her ability."
Joyce Stranger, Zara. I had this in paperback as a child in the 1970s and am sure it is the same book. I think Zara was a racehorse and Richard spent more time with her than he did with his wife.
 
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I picked the Jinny series as I loved them, but some of my favourites were by the Pullein-Thompson sisters - "Horse for the Holidays" was a great one and I loved the Pony Club stories.

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I loved the Pullein-Thompson sisters books when I was younger... Black Beauty is definitely one of my favourite classics though.
 
all of those on the list apart from the last 2, which i've never heard of!
definitely The Black Stallion series, all the Pullein_Thompson ones, and particularly the K.M.Peyton ones Fly-by-Night and The Team, which was a tiny bit more grown up and very very good. One character was a brilliant rider who could really improve any horse or pony, and he inspired me to try to improve myself instead of just bumping around!
too many others to mention - i was allowed to buy one pony book a week with my pocket money (about 60p then, this was in the 70s), and i still have every single book, and loan them out (huge boxes at a time) to friend's children, cos i can't bear to part with them! tragic, huh.
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Goodness I loved all of them - not sure which I loved best!! In fact, I still have them - in fact I read Jill Has Two Ponies the other day
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Think the Silver Brumby was my fave tho.
 
I have acres of horsey books that I have passed onto my daughter. I used to scour the jumble sales at school for them and pay peanuts because so few kids were into horses
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Jill books and Jinny ones were favourite.... although I think that Shantih (sp) was the reason why I would never want to own an arab... all tarred with the same brush mentally... and obviously unfairly (before I get battered by the arab lovers)
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Well I must be really old fashioned cos my favourite pick of those mentioned would be Black Beauty, I loved all the Pullein-Thomson girls' stuff, but I also loved the pony books by their mother, Joanna Cannan. I've read The Heavenly Horse several times, as an adult - it's a lovely book.
 
You're just like me! I still like to flick through some of them once in a while!

No one has even mentioned the Romney Marsh and the Punchbowl series by Monica Edwards yet. There are also books by Gillian Baxter, Primrose Cummings, Caroline Akrill to name but a few.
I had a look through the Jinny books, Saddle Club etc and they weren't a patch on the older ones. Judith Berrisford did some good ones too also the Pullein Thompsons.
 
I loved King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry. Its a fictionalized story of the Godolphin Arabian. I adored that book. And the Black Stallion, but nothing beats Black Beauty. Remember Ginger? Soooo sad.
 
Oh I looooooooved Flambards by K.M.Peyton - though not strictly speaking a horsey series!
 
Of those, the Jill books inspired me most as a child, but I also loved K M Peyton's books which aren't on the list. As I got older I prefered the Jinny books - not quite as 'twee' as the Jill ones!
 
Gillian Baxter the perfect horse, difficult summer , jump to the stars, Walter Farley Black Stallion series, Prince among ponies J Pullen-Thompson, Ruby Ferguson, Jinny books the list goes on and on and they are all still on my book shelf and I still like reading them!
 
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