pony books - from my childhood...

[binker]

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 !

First thought would be one of the Pullein-Thompson sisters. this site has bibliographies with descriptions of all their books but there are dozens and dozens to trawl through, unless any of the titles rings a bell.

thanks RosaLuxembourg- will check it out - there was another horsey author who was also a show jumper,but can't think of her name - maybe Sue something ?

Is it the Jill's Gymkhana series? by Ruby Ferguson? I loved those when i was about 8.

don't think so, but I'll look up her books in case !

erm Monica Dickens maybe?

gawd my brain's hurting!

Oh my childhod flashes before me
I loved all those
another book called Winter Pony then followed by Summer pony were excellent.

moica dickens was follyfoot etc?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Im going to dig out all my old books now

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

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!

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.

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?

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

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...

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

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!

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

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

Freddy, that was it.

I loved the 'Jill' books.

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