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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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Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:08

*Cooper

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:08

I had a pony - still have her, but loaned out. Too much of a heifer to ride her I tried Dick Francis aswell... just because it had horses! I wasn't allowed it out of the school library though, I was too young! Very embarassing walking back in with the book, and putting it back on the shelf in reading hour. I then moved to Jilly Copper

Piffle · 09/01/2007 15:05

I was pony mad, I had my own pony as well.
when I ran out of kids pony books I went on to Dick Francis - wholly inappropriate for a 9 yr old naive girl but they had horses in them so had to be READ!

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:02

I used to curl up on my bed, huddled against the radiator, pile of toast, cup of tea and read these for hours

Matonic · 09/01/2007 15:01

The showjumper author is surely Pat Smythe, who wrote the Three Jays series of pony books. They, and Ruby Ferguson's Jill books, were my favourites, because although I was an avid reader, I wasn't actually that keen on ponies. The Three Jays always had some kind of mystery/adventure to occupy them, and I think I was intrigued by the Jill books because they were written in the first person and I hadn't come across many first person stories then.

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 15:01

The secret of pony pass

"It was a desolate spot. There was a precipice on the left side, and the bare rock was still wet from the rain. Slowly but surely Honey Boy was climbing. Then Georgie heard a low muttering on the horizon. There was a crack of thunder which almost split the mountain in two. Honey Boy staggered. Georgie's hands lost their grip..."

Blu · 09/01/2007 14:58

I loved the 'Jill' books.

And Pat Smythe wrote a series, didn't she?

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 14:57

Freddy, that was it.

Piffle · 09/01/2007 14:56

and the jackie series are good read as well
Judith Berrisford
Oh gawd anyone else aching for their childhood again?

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 14:55

I remember a magazine with a horse called Freddy, and another called Muffin...

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 14:54

I dont remember the smiths win a pony comp, but I remember a pony magazine where they said you part owned a pony just by buying the mag. I cant remember what its name was, but there was a competition to find a rider for it.

I really believed I owned that pony!

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binker · 09/01/2007 14:52

ooer- secret of pony pass sounds familiar -will check it out as soon as I get back from school....

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binker · 09/01/2007 14:51

Katelyle, no I don't think it was those...it's lovely to see all these memories coming back though !
I loved Follyfoot !
Did anyone else enter the yearly WH Smith Win a Pony Competition ? I always did,despite not having anywhere to put it,should I get lucky !!
I envied my best friend her Sindy horse but even better than that was my Thelwell pony,with lovely mane and tail - I think it was either Miranda on Merrylegs or Fiona on Thistledown - I had all the Thelwell books,come to think of it...

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Piffle · 09/01/2007 14:50

its not mary gervaise - secret of pony pass is it?

katelyle · 09/01/2007 14:46

My 11 year old is currently galloping(!) through the Jill books! She didn't like the Pullein Thompson ones - too old fashioned, but we have had Monica Edwards as bed time stories. Wonderful nostalgic stuff for me!

Binker, you aren't thinking on the Punchbowl Farm books are you?

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 14:46

I know there was a series set in Wales... for the life of me I can't think of some of the titles... they were all cousins and the like though. But it's a more modern pony book series.

JanH · 09/01/2007 14:45

Monica Edwards wrote pony stories too - about Tamzin and Rissa (and the Punchbowl Farm lot too) - was the right era for bleak houses with no food!

PinkTulips · 09/01/2007 14:44

oh the flashbacks are coming thick and fast at tall these titles!

i was very horsey and read every pony book under the sun but i also have a memory like a sieve so can't remember any of their names, lol

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 14:43

Im going to dig out all my old books now

KezzaG · 09/01/2007 14:42

I dont know the answer to this but it is driving me insane. I cant do any work now, I am just reminiscing about Jills Gymkhana series.

I will be back to check this later and hope someone has found the answer. Am back off to trawl through amazon.

Piffle · 09/01/2007 14:38

Flicka was set in montana Mary O hara
and brumby series was in Oz I think?

Piffle · 09/01/2007 14:36

patricia leitch = jinny oh the arab pony shantih
I'm regressing..........

JackieNo · 09/01/2007 14:35

My sister liked these sorts of books, and the only ones I could remember were My friend Flicka and The Silver Brumby , but it doesn't look like either of those.

Quootiepie · 09/01/2007 14:34

It's not the "Jinny" series? They move to a remote house in Scotland....

Piffle · 09/01/2007 14:33

moica dickens was follyfoot etc?

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