What Childhood horsey books did you read

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As the title says: I used to read the "Jill" series ie Jill's Gymkhana and Jill's Riding School also the series by Pat Smythe about a set of twins which I think were supposed to be her neice and nephew or cousins. All set in the days when people used to do the unhear of and hack to shows OMG! Showing my age but fed up with the weather and feeling nostalgic.
 
My pink pony was one of my favourites
Fly by night another
Those days of innocence when you could curl up with a book and dream about owning a pony..
Yup showing my age to !
 
i also used to read the Jill ones, and the Saddle Club books. i think that was pretty much it, along with Horse and Pony Magazine
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Heartland, Saddle Club, not strictly horsey but all the Animal Ark ones, and various ones my the Pullien Thompsons (sp?)
 
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I used to read the Jill books plus Black Beauty.

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My favourite was Rebel pony and a Summer with Tommy. The first was a bout a girl who 'tamed' a wild pony and won a sorts of jumping classes. The other was a journalist who purchased a young wild Datrmoor and wrote about breaking him in.
 
Flicka and ThunderCloud?? Rings a bell but can't remember why!
I do remember the Jill books, did she have a chestnut arab type?? (or was that something else!)
 
Which was the series with Shantih the chestnut arab? I used to read those, it wasn't Jill was it?
I also had a book called Cassidy in Danger, I must have read it over 50 times I loved it so much!!
Oh and I also read The Silver Brumby series, the stallion in charge of the Australian herd was called Thowra!
Crikey, how long ago was that!
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Jill, also Jinny and Shantih (that was the chestnut arab nutter!), Black Stallion, Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming, Silver Brumby (I loved those), Fly By Night and the rest of the series, which got better and better, all the Pullein-Thompson ones... you name it, i read it! Mum bought me 1 a week when she went to town to do the shopping on Fridays!
the saddest thing is that i still have them, all of them, hoarded away... there are literally hundreds.
 
Kerilli, thank you for reminding me it was Jinny with the nutty Arab, that would have bugged me all day!!
I would also like to add the Black Stallion ones were great weren't they, my favourites were Son of the Black Stallion and Black Stallions and Minx (?
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?) his daughter who would not race.....
I'm going to stop going on now!!
Oh one more, I read a book in about 1985 called Silver Snaffles.
<Clunk, hides under desk ashamedly>
 
Pretty much anything but my favourites were the Pullein-Thompson ones, especially Josephine. I have an old hardback copy of Six Ponies which remains my favourite book to this day.
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All the Jill, Jinny, Jackie ones; Black Stallion etc. There were a few one off children's classics which I loved: Bonny the Pony; Heather; Skewbald the New Forest Pony - always had sad bits in them though!

I still have all mine too, boxed up in the attic waiting for the nieces and nephews!
 
I read quite a few of the Pullein-Thompson onees, and Jill's Gymkhana, although they were really before my time (Jill bought her horse for £25!
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) There was one series that I LOVED, and I can't remember what it was called.
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I think mum gave the books to a charity shop, but it was quite similar to the Saddle Club and all that but not as well-known. There were four books in the series and each focused on a different girl at the riding school. I remember not only wishing that I had a pony, but also that I went to the kind of riding school where you made friends and hung around all day helping with the ponies. Now I work at one just like it!
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ETA My absolute FAVOURITE horsey book was "The Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies" by Tamsin Pickeral. It's a massive book, but I read it all the way through when I was about six.
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I've still got it on my bookshelf, complete with my name scrawled inside the front cover with half the letters backwards, and the spine held on by sheer willpower and most of a roll of sellotape.
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I used to spend hours with a sheet of tracing paper, learning to draw horses using the pictures in that book.

Edited again: After a bit of Googling I have found my old favourite series.
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It was imaginatively called "Riding School" and it was by Samantha Alexander. I am so tempted to buy them off Amazon now....
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Can't remember who wrote them but there was a series about a group of teenagers who started their own pack of foxhounds and successfully hunted them..........!
 
Oh yes, all the Jill books plus Flambards, Edge of a Cloud and Flambards in Summer.

Ah those were the days... *sighs nostalgically*
 
I read the Jill books, Pullein Thompson sisters books, My Friend Flicka, Green Grass of Wyoming, and the other set of books in that trilogy - Thunder something? Silver Brumby things like that...
 
OMG I have loads really way to old to have them now but wont part

I have Jill books, Jackie, Jinny and Shantih plus lots more Patrica Leith books I love Dream Of Fair Horses
All Pullien Thompson sisters
The Eventers Trilogy Caroline Arkrill
K.M Peyton Fly BY Night And The Swallow Series... the list is endless loL
 
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Can't remember who wrote them but there was a series about a group of teenagers who started their own pack of foxhounds and successfully hunted them..........!

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that was Christine Pullein-Thompson - "A Day to go Hunting" etc - really good and very informative too!
 
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I remember reading a book called Jump To The Stars and its sequel called The Difficult Summer. I forget who wrote them but I read them over and over
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These are by Gillian Baxter 3 in seires there is also The Perfect Horse the final book
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I loved the Jill books. I think they are my favourite books to this day
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!!!!!! I still have them all, and will sometimes read one, especially if I have had a bad day
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. My Mum had a book called the Vanguard book of riding which had some stories in, my Favourite was They Bought her a Pony, can't remember who it was by, but it was about a Chestnut pony called Flash who was bought for a rich, spoilt child. The child thought she was a brilliant rider, but very quickly realised she wasnt!!!!!
 
Do you mean "Pony for Jean" by Joanna Cannon? That has the right story line.

My absolute favourites were the Jackies. Ive now lent them to my daughter who loves them too!

Why don't they write books like that now?
 
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I remember reading a book called Jump To The Stars and its sequel called The Difficult Summer. I forget who wrote them but I read them over and over
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These are by Gillian Baxter 3 in seires there is also The Perfect Horse the final book
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I'd forgotten those - I really loved Jump to the Stars - may have to dig them out and read them again
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They Bought her a pony is by Joanna Cannan so is A Pony for Jean followed by Another Pony For Jean..

The Hunting booksd are by the Pullien Thompsons
They are
We Hunted Hounds
I carried the Horn
Goodbye to Hounds
 
I used to read 'The Saddle Club' books and i still enjoy re-reading the 'Riders' series by Samantha Alexandra!
 
The Saddle Club, Follyfoot, Horse and Pony magazine (RIP Freddie). The Thoroughbred Series were ace too - "A Horse Called Wonder" was the first and they went on from there... ahhhh, childhood memories
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Jill, also Jinny and Shantih (that was the chestnut arab nutter!), Black Stallion, Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming, Silver Brumby (I loved those), Fly By Night and the rest of the series, which got better and better, all the Pullein-Thompson ones...

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I was the same unfortunatly havent got mine anymore though
 
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