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Post by susanb on Mar 3, 2010 0:46:06 GMT 1
LOVE Susan Cooper! I actually keep a spare paperback of The Dark is Rising as a "lending copy", and I've not had a single miss with people (adults) I've lent it to!
I've always loved Kim too....I came to it as a child, and have re-read it several times since then. (I went through almost all of Kipling's children's fiction as a kid...the only one I missed out on, but read as an adult, was Stalky & Co.). Cold Comfort Farm I read first as an adult, after seeing the tv adaptation....it was tremendous fun, and I really wish someone would reprint Christmas at Cold Comfort soon, because I can't afford the prices the vintage copies fetch!
One of my favorite book-ish quotes is "A book reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then" C.S. Lewis.
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Post by foxglove on Mar 4, 2010 10:21:58 GMT 1
Claire, thanks for alerting me to the potential different versions of Six Ponies. I was going to order the one generally available from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Six-Ponies-Josephine-Pullein-Thompson/dp/1906123063/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I12UXNKVWWYRYJ&colid=17OB6VREWNJAY Does that look like the "full" version? Oh yes, it also occurred to me that the thieves in Horse In The House were quite thick; as surely Orbit's value was in his breeding, but without his official papers he couldn't be sold through a sales ring or marketed at stud? I guess he must have been a distinctive breed where sires are well known. Surely a 10 year old wouldn't have been given a Thoroughbred colt though. Perhaps a Quarter Horse, as I think they have their own Stud Book in the US? Or American Standardbred or Saddlebred?
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Post by Claire on Mar 4, 2010 20:40:55 GMT 1
foxglove the one on the link is the full version and it will have all the lovely illustrations too, some of which were also chopped from the Armada version. I would recommend reading the armada verison too sometime to compare, in some ways I prefer that one. Maybe cos its the one I was brought up on, but I think that some of the stuff in the full version is extraneous. The 'Richard' bit however (you'll know what I mean when you read it) should have been left in IMHO.
We had a thread discussing this somewhere. I will try and find it and link it for you to look at foxglove.
For some reason I always see Orbit as a QH. Not sure why cos I am sure it doesnt say.
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Post by susanb on Mar 9, 2010 20:08:20 GMT 1
Just an additional thought....I wonder if William Corbin was inspired in any way by the story of Tempe Wick, a Revolutionary era girl who lived in Morristown, New Jersey and saved her horse from being commandeered by Pennsylvania mutineers by hiding him in the house. Here's an accounting: tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/the-legend-of-tempe-wick/There isn't anything in particular to indicate that he'd heard the story, but it's interesting to speculate!
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Post by susanb on Mar 5, 2013 3:25:24 GMT 1
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Post by Claire on Mar 5, 2013 12:16:09 GMT 1
Hi susan, thanks for that interesting info. Yes I'll add it to William Corbin's page. I'm having to update every single page anyhow thanks to the latest editions of Firefox changing all the fonts - a very slow and boring job....
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Post by susanb on Aug 20, 2016 19:44:52 GMT 1
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Post by kunuma1 on Aug 21, 2016 15:02:49 GMT 1
That's interesting - I had not heard of the series which amazes me but looking at the pictures and the synopsis they haven't stayed very close to the book! The horse in the pictures isn't even a palomino - which was a very important part of the story too! Methinks perhaps they missed out all the boat stuff as too hard to film!
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Post by fizz on Aug 26, 2016 12:50:44 GMT 1
I had this book as a child but I cannot remember anything about it. There was a TV adaptation in the 1970s where they used a thoroughbred stallion to play Orbit. I was just getting interested in racehorse breeding. This is the one they used, unfortunately there isn't an image. sporthorse-data.com/d?d=mandao&x=16&y=17It was a chestnut with a blaze. Does anyone else remember the TV programme, about 1976 I think.
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Post by susanb on Aug 29, 2016 20:36:53 GMT 1
I know, it doesn't sound like it stuck to the book much at all, which is a pity, because it looks like they altered some of the best parts, but I'd still like to see what they did with it!
LOL....can you even IMAGINE the uproar if they tried to tie a baby to a rope and toss him overboard!
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Post by sarah on Aug 29, 2016 23:38:45 GMT 1
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Post by kunuma1 on Aug 31, 2016 17:58:25 GMT 1
Well! I just watched the clip and I think that it's more of a case that they totally made up a completely different story with the same name!! Sad really because as the reviews we put at the beginning for the book show, it was a fun, different book and the characters came over well, especially the fiesty palomino stallion.
I'd forgotten the bit about tossing the baby overboard! It was little bits like that that made the book come to life so well.
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Post by Claire on Sept 2, 2016 21:15:33 GMT 1
Thanks for the clip Sarah. Nice to see a young Pete Postlethwaite. Blondie is a terrible actress tho! It does seem to bear no resemblance to the book.
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