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Post by Claire on Nov 27, 2010 14:39:11 GMT 1
Hi all, time for another top 10. (Don't forget to vote for the ones we have had so far)
Favourite stories from the horse or pony's viewpoint. We must have Black Beauty obviously! My favourite tho is the Silver Brumby series.
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Post by haffyfan on Nov 27, 2010 15:03:19 GMT 1
The Maltese cat springs to mind here
Also Horses In The Valley by Brian Fairfax-Lucy
High Honours by PMM has a good degree of the tale from the horses mouth and to a certain extent (due to the lack of human characters I guess) so is Deep Sea Horse by primrose Cumming.
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Post by susanb on Nov 27, 2010 15:33:52 GMT 1
haffy has already named my favorite, The Maltese Cat!
A few others that fit the bill:
Moorland Mousie/Older Mousie by Golden Gorse
Ponies Plot by C. Northcote Parkinson
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
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Post by darkhorse on Nov 27, 2010 16:59:32 GMT 1
I was going to add Moorland Mouise but susanb got there first I can't think of any more
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2010 18:45:15 GMT 1
All my favourites have been mentioned too. The only other one I can think of is Light Horse to Damascus by Elyne Mitchell
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Post by fizz on Nov 27, 2010 19:23:09 GMT 1
Topper & Royal Crusader by Pamela Macgregor Morris. Seem to remember Golden Pony being told by the pony. All the Black Beauty family ones. Rufus the New Forest Pony, would have to root to find the author. Lovely book with super illustrations.
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Post by Claire on Nov 27, 2010 20:18:04 GMT 1
Rufus was written by Jean Rowan.
Yes I seem to remember the Golden Pony by Delphine Ratcliff was also from the pony's viewpoint.
Another one - tho it wouldn't be in my top 10 as I thought it deadly dull - is Three White Stockings by Moyra Charlton. Havent read Tally Ho by her but that could be too. Please enlighten us if you have read it.
Another suggestion - an author whom kunuma loves to spell ;D A. F. Tschiffeley - The Tale of Two Horses
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2010 21:14:20 GMT 1
I read it a few months back....I do have a short memory!...yes its a pony point of view.
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Post by garej on Nov 27, 2010 21:49:04 GMT 1
I cant think of any because I dont like pony point of view books!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2010 7:40:01 GMT 1
I cant think of any because I dont like pony point of view books! It's funny you should say that garej because I love them and I was thinking yesterday which type of pony stories people like best. I can't stand racing stories, I've just tried to read Jenny Pitmans On the edge and didn't get very far before I was bored. I'm sure it's a very good book but it didn't do it for me. Anyway I was thinking could we have a poll for peoples favourite type of pony story? or has that been done before Claire?
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Post by garej on Nov 28, 2010 10:37:19 GMT 1
I cant think of any because I dont like pony point of view books! It's funny you should say that garej because I love them and I was thinking yesterday which type of pony stories people like best. I can't stand racing stories, I've just tried to read Jenny Pitmans On the edge and didn't get very far before I was bored. I'm sure it's a very good book but it didn't do it for me. I tried Double Deal by Jenny Pitman and also didnt finish it. First horse/pony orientated book that I didn't finish (the only other book I struggled to finish was a non-pony one called Brick Lane). I do have Black Beauty (who doesn't?) and all the Black Beauty Family/Clan by the PT's, plus Black Swift by JPT, which are all pony point of view. I also have (and read) Moyra Charlton's Tally Ho, which is also a pony point of view, and Misty the Grey Pony by Joyce Mary Lennon too. But I seem to appreciate the illustrations (as both were illustrated by some decent artists: Tally Ho had Lionel Edwards, though Misty had Harry Rountree). I think the problem is that the majority of them follow the same route: horse is young, gets broken in, has a good home, gets sold to a bad home, good home, bad home, eventually to it's final good home. Whereas in the late 1930s/1940s authors like Primrose Cumming and Joanna Cannan broke new ground by shifting away and writing stuff more like the ones we know and love (basically everything until the advent of modern fantasy fluffy pink stories), though of course some authors (like the PTs in the 1970s) did write the occasional pony-point-of-view story.
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Post by Claire on Nov 28, 2010 13:10:36 GMT 1
I cant think of any because I dont like pony point of view books! It's funny you should say that garej because I love them and I was thinking yesterday which type of pony stories people like best. I can't stand racing stories, I've just tried to read Jenny Pitmans On the edge and didn't get very far before I was bored. I'm sure it's a very good book but it didn't do it for me. Anyway I was thinking could we have a poll for peoples favourite type of pony story? or has that been done before Claire? Rosie I don't think we have done it before it would make a very interesting thread/poll. I agree with garej that the pony point of view stories can be dull and unoriginal, altho yes they usually do have lovely illustrations, and they are not my fav sort of story either. (I love racing stories!) That said I do love Triple Bar by Peggie Cannam which is a pony VP novel altho not in the first person and has more about other human characters than many of the type. (Rosie would recommend it to you if you like these sort of books - plus its got gorgeous pics by my fav illustrator Geoffrey Whittam) Also what about the Allen Seaby books? They are sort of part pony VP (3rd person) part human VP. So I wonder if they would qualify....?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2010 15:25:37 GMT 1
Oh good! Would you be able to start it when you have time. I'm sure you'll word it better than me Thanks for the tip about Triple Bar by Peggie Cannam. You don't want my copy of On the Edge do you? ;D
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Post by Claire on Dec 5, 2010 21:16:05 GMT 1
Added poll and thought of 2 more: Jago by H M Peel is mainly point of view of the horse, with also some human VP. The Horse by Siegfried Stander is also point of view of horse.
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Post by susanb on Dec 5, 2010 23:44:20 GMT 1
Rats! I just remembered one more, a good one too....The Five Circles by Barbara May, told from the point of view of a horse on the Canadian Eventing team.
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Post by rallycairn on Dec 6, 2010 0:16:27 GMT 1
Susanb, that sounds like a great book!
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Post by susanb on Dec 6, 2010 2:56:18 GMT 1
It is really nicely done, and I don't often go for the pony point of view type book. It's not the most common book in the world, but when you find it, it's not at all expensive (especially in the US, as it's a Canadian publication).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2010 7:14:13 GMT 1
I've just read Older Mousie, loved it! Claire I managed to get hold of a copy of Triple bar, thanks for the recommendation. And Susanb I like the sound of Five Circles too.
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Post by rallycairn on Dec 6, 2010 17:01:59 GMT 1
Oh, I love Older Mousie and don't actually have Moorland Mousie ... yet!
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