By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:37:00 +0000

The Mary O’Hara trilogy: My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, The Green Grass of Wyoming totally captured my imagination. Ken, the main character, with his dreaming nature, grows up throughout the series, learning life’s tough lessons. I loved that kid. I was that kid. We read, also, the scary reality of the grown-up world, which also helped me understand my parents a bit too. The horses were horses and not anthropomorphized – although I’m not 10% sure the herd behaviour depicted was entirely accurate. 🙂
I also loved White Stallion of Lipizza by Marguerite Henry, about a humble baker’s boy who achieved his dream of riding the Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.
And I loved Ludo and the Star Horse, by Mary Steward, about a boy who accompanied his family’s ageing farm horse across the zodiac to become one of the sun god’s chariot horses.
KM Peyton’s Fly By Night and The Team is a great story about a kid who works her butt off to own a pony and ride for a pony club team was also a great inspiration. It’s another book that doesn’t sugar-coat the realities of being a horse person and emphasizes the importance of hard work, friendship, forgiveness. That kid was also me – a kid from a family without the means to support my love of horses but who worked like hell to make it happen anyway.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:11:04 +0000

I had all these books and many more.They were my nightly reading many a night as a aspiring equestrian.They thought me so much.I am now on a quest to find the hard backs to reread them now I am in my fifties.Does anyone know if they r still in print or r available online???

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