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pony books - from my childhood...

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binker · 09/01/2007 12:00

I really wanrt to find a book I read as a young girl -it was a pony/horse book,maybe by one of the usual pony book authors but not sure - group of children go on holiday to remote house in Wales- very bleak and no food etc...any ideas -or failing that,any suggestions of authors I could trawl through- thanks !

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DarrellRivers · 09/01/2007 15:59

Mallory Towers, I think the twins were at St Clares

Lucycat · 09/01/2007 15:58

No wonder we were all confused!!

How do you like this website? cool eh?

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:58

I've read the books over and over and over... but it's been a few years now

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binker · 09/01/2007 15:57

Does anyone actually own the Secret of Pony Pass ? thanks for sending the e-bay link quootiepie,it didn';t seem immediately familiar - I remember a lot of Welsh names and the children finding flour to make dampers,though I hadn't a clue what they were. Darrelrivers - are you a St Clares girl or Mallory Towers ?

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KezzaG · 09/01/2007 15:57

Oh I missed that. Shame, I quite liked the idea of you being a Ruby expert.

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:55

I googled that! See the quote marks

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 15:54

I thought I was obsessed Quootiepie! Have you considered Mastermind with a specialist subject of the works of Ruby Ferguson? you could go on in johdpurs and a riding hat LOL

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:53

so, he's been black and piebald

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:52

"Black Boy, Jill?s first pony, mysteriously became a piebald in these editions. Whether this was because Bonar Dunlop drew him like that and the books were changed to suit, or whether it was the other way round, I do not know. Ruby Ferguson had died by the time these editions appeared so was not around to object."

DarrellRivers · 09/01/2007 15:51

Sorry slow typing , last post related to win a pony

DarrellRivers · 09/01/2007 15:50

From what I could remember you got stabling and maintenace costs for a year, but Lord knows what you did once the year was up

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:50

Definatly piebald...

Lucycat · 09/01/2007 15:50

he's black here I'm confused now - I'd always assumed he was a black horse!

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 15:48

Was just about to say the same thing.......what would have happended if he had been brown and called Brown Boy?

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:48

at least in the illatrations (sp?) he is.

Lucycat · 09/01/2007 15:48

Ypu type more quickly than me Quootie!

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:47

he was piebald

Lucycat · 09/01/2007 15:47

He was called Black Boy - according to Wikipedia they say his name is now Best Boy as it's more politically correct!

He was a black horse though wasn't he?

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:46

She had Black Boy, but, for PC reason in new editions it's "Best Boy"

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 15:46

I thoight Jills first pony was called Black boy, and the second was called Rapide. and her friend had one called George?

I soooo wanted to be Jill.

Blu · 09/01/2007 15:45

Oh, yes, the WH Smith comp - I had forgotten that. I did multiple entries, too!

In the Jill books, didn't she change the name of her first pony after the first book? It started off being called danny and then got a more glamourous name - or was it the other way round?
Then she got a second pony, too!

turquoise · 09/01/2007 15:40

I used to do multiple entries, year after year, for the WH Smith comp.
Loved the Jill books and Punchbowl Farm best, until the brother turned into a horrible factory farmer and dehorned the cows! I still think the Jill books are brilliant even as an adult - April May and June Cholly-Sawcutt etc! . In fact I first read Pride and Prejudice because some barmy character in Jill was raving over it.

JanH · 09/01/2007 15:31

Do you think people actually won ponies? I mean can you imagine your mother faced with a horsebox outside and a pony on the doorstep? Mine would have fainted!

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:24

I had a whole library of maintenance books. I used to read them over and over No idea where I've put them though, think they might be in my mums garage! Am really going to go hunt all these out

DarrellRivers · 09/01/2007 15:23

I also entered WHSmiths competition to win a pony.
I also was convinced I was going to win.
I was pony mad, and read all kind of books on horse maintenance, even though I didn't have one.
Recently saw a horse with laminitis and thought to myself, ooh that is caused by too much spring grass.

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