De Pullein-Thompson zussen – Josephine, Diana en Christine – zijn Britse auteurs die gevierd worden om hun sfeervolle verhalen over paarden en pony's, voornamelijk gericht op kinderen. Hun werken staan bekend om hun charme en hun vermogen om jonge lezers onder te dompelen in werelden vol zachte avonturen en ruiterthema's. In het midden van de 20e eeuw kregen ze bekendheid en hun schrijfstijl resoneert nog steeds bij generaties, met een blijvende aantrekkingskracht. De samenwerkende geest van de zussen en hun unieke stemmen weven een bijzonder literair weefsel dat blijft boeien.
Six New Forest ponies are given to six children for a year. During that time they have to break them in, and at the end of it there is a competition to see who has done best. The horse-breakers are a very different from each other and have very different experiences of the highs and lows of training a young pony.
"When Jean learns that her family is soon to move back to England, all she can think about is Phantom, the wild palomino horse she has tamed. Will she have to leave him behind?"--Back cover.
Running wild in the Virginia Mountains, Phantom the palomino horse is tamed by Jean and Angus and taken to England. Christine Pullein-Thompson s much-loved series features their exciting adventures. Age 8+
Josephine Pullein-Thompson and her younger twin sisters Diana and Christine are well known as the authors of many pony stories for children. In this autobiography they tell the story of their early life growing up in Oxfordshire recalling tales of the people and animals that surrounded them.
Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use
Fun ideas for Christmas cards and decorations including flying angels, Christmas collages and dancing snowmen can all be made using readily-available materials and then be decorated with the shiny stickers included in the book.
"I don't want to spend the Easter holidays grooming a beastly muddy pony."When Christabel's father says "All right," to this, she doesn't expect that anything will happen. But it does. He sells her ponies. Christabel gets over it pretty quickly, but then she goes to stay with the Westlakes while her parents are away. It's never fun when you realise that people don't think very much of you, and the worst of it is, Christabel begins to agree with them. And she comes to bitterly regret selling her ponies. But will she ever be able to find them again? In a pre-internet age, it's not easy.
65 years after they were written, the letters between a young wartime Lancaster gunner and his mother which had been painstakingly boxed away, were re-discovered by a new generation of his family. These letters narrate, in his own words, the entire story of his time in the RAF including family, friendships, love and tragedy.
Packed with exciting adventures on horseback, this bumper collection of favorite stories will felight horse and pony lovers everywhere.