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Pony books form a genre in children's literature of stories featuring children, teenagers, ponies and horses, and the learning of equestrian skills, especially at a pony club or riding school. The genre is generally idealistic, featuring fantasies of perfect friendship with an idealized companion animal.
Misty of Chincoteague is a children's novel written by pony book author Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis, and published by Rand McNally in 1947.Set in the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia, the book was inspired by the real-life story of the Beebe family and their efforts to raise a Chincoteague Pony filly born to a wild horse, who would later become known as Misty of ...
Pony books (36 P) Pages in category "Children's novels about horses" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
The 1877 novel Black Beauty, although about a horse and not a pony, is seen as a forerunner of pony book fiction. [1] [2] Pony books themselves began to appear in the late 1920s. [1] In 1928 British lifestyle magazine Country Life published Golden Gorse's The Young Rider which went to a second edition in 1931, and a third in 1935. In the ...
York County native Jess Bowers tells the stories of horses throughout American history and the role they played in film and photography in her debut historical fiction book "Horse Show."
When the plague hits Ashleigh's family, various horses who survive or are sold before the first book, die (Midnight Wanderer, for example, who is put to sleep in the book, 'Goodbye Midnight Wanderer', apparently dies of the mysterious plague, rather than from the accident.) There is also large changes as to how Ashleigh and Mona get their horses.