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Post by Claire on Dec 28, 2010 16:05:47 GMT 1
Best pony books set in the past. Sorry we cant really have Black Beauty as altho its set in past it was contemporary when it was written.
I probably like KMP's historical stories the best: Flambards, The Gains series and Pony in the Dark are all excellent.
My other favourites are Marguerite Henry's historical ones: King of the Wind is m,y fav, but I also like San Domingo and Justin Morgan.
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Post by susanb on Dec 28, 2010 16:56:11 GMT 1
Diane Lee Wilson's historical books are excellent...my favorites are I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade and Firehorse
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2010 18:41:50 GMT 1
I'd go with Flambards
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Post by haffyfan on Dec 28, 2010 20:59:44 GMT 1
lol just the sort i can never get into...
Does going back in time count? If so Can i get there By Candlelight or is that more ghostly?
I started to read Blue Roan Child a bit back now but couldn't work out if it was historical/futuristic/realms of fantasty or just plain odd
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Post by Claire on Dec 28, 2010 21:08:06 GMT 1
Funny some people just can't get into historical stories. I love them in fact read loads of non-pony ones. I'm a bit of a history nerd KMP also did a pony-ish series set in Roman times which was quite good. I liked Blitz by Hetty Burlingame Beatty which is, like Diane Lee Wilson's book, about a firehorse. Also the Black Beauty's family series by the PTs were historical.
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Post by jinglerebel on Dec 29, 2010 0:29:36 GMT 1
Flambards series except for Flambards Divided I like non-horsy history too.
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Post by garej on Dec 29, 2010 0:40:45 GMT 1
Flambards series except for Flambards Divided I agree. I cant think of any historical series other than the Black Beauty's Family series and Flambards. A lot of series could be classified now as historical, but the thing is that they were simply reflecting the times as which they were written/published. For example Primrose Cumming's Silver Eagle Carries On is set in WW2, but it was originally published in 1940, when WW2 was very much going on!
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Post by fizz on Dec 29, 2010 11:23:16 GMT 1
Are we looking at series here? KM Peyton has Mina's quest & Dear Fred, think she has written other historical ones too apart from Flambards. War Horse would have to come into the category too.
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Post by foxglove on Jan 4, 2011 17:17:13 GMT 1
I read Minna's Quest recently and enjoyed it, although it was probably aimed at readers younger than when I first discovered KM Peyton.
Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote outstanding historical children's fiction, but the pony bits are incidental rather than the main thrust of the stories.
Some of the American frontier stories must be set in the 19th century?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2011 21:13:48 GMT 1
Dear Busybody by Eleanor Helme set in 1897
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Post by susanb on Jan 30, 2011 22:42:49 GMT 1
Adding a few more:
Chase by Jessie Haas
Serilda's Star by Olive Rambo Cook
Blue Ribbons for Meg by Adele deLeeuw
Wild Boy by Thomas Fall
Comanche of the Seventh by Margaret Leighton
Brave Horse: the Story of Janus by Manly Wde Wellman
The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley (almost hard to think of this as historic, as it's set in the 60s and we all read so many books from decades earlier than that, but as it was written just last year, historic it is!)
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Post by Claire on Jan 30, 2011 22:50:25 GMT 1
Lol to the sixties as being historic. Quite a few of us were born then!
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Post by susanb on Jan 30, 2011 23:02:42 GMT 1
Me too, but it does fit the definition! Reminds me of taking my bike in for servicing a few years back (I've had it since I was 9)...it only really needed to have one of the hand brakes fixed and new tires, but when I went to pick it up, it had been cleaned, waxed and polished to within an inch of it's life. The young guy running the place said to me "everyone was fighting to work on it....it's such a classic". Had to paste a smile on my face and say "thank you", when what I was really thinking "I'm the ORIGINAL owner you little b*stard!" ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Claire on Jan 30, 2011 23:28:57 GMT 1
lol thats very funny. Unfortunately they don't think we are classics, just over the hill
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Post by Claire on Jan 31, 2011 14:05:10 GMT 1
Some more ideas:
RIDING SHOTGUN (PARTLY) & HIGH HEARTS BY RITA MAE BROWN BLACK HORSES FOR THE KING BY ANNE McCAFFREY DEFIANCE AT THE INN & A POCKETFUL OF SILVER BY MARY MAY THE DUTCH COLT BY CORNELIA MEIGS HORSE DIARIES SERIES (RECENT SERIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS) A SPORTING PROPOSITION BY JAMES ALDRIDGE THE NIPPER BY CATHERINE COOKSON HOOFBEATS SERIES BY KATHLEEN DUEY DARK HORSE BY RUMER GODDEN MUST BE GOOD RIDERS ORPHANS PREFERRED BY DON STANFORD SNOWBIRD BY PATRICIA CALVERT THE GREAT HORSES (PARTLY) BY PRIMROSE CUMMING LIGHT HORSE TO DAMASCUS & THE SNOWY RIVER SERIES BY ELYNE MITCHELL
Please add any other suggestions soon as I will be doing the poll shortly.
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Post by susanb on Jan 31, 2011 18:52:28 GMT 1
A quick note, Must be Good Riders, Orphans Preferred was co-authored by Don Stanford (of Horsemasters fame) and Vern Baker. Kind of a stinker as books go, to be honest. You wouldn't think a pony express story could be dull, but they've managed.
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Post by Claire on Jan 31, 2011 21:02:57 GMT 1
Thanks for spotting the deliberate mistake (have rectified it) got my Stanfords and Sanfords in a muddle! ;D Hadnt read it but thought someone may have and liked it. Don't think I'll bother now! Pity as The Horsemasters is excellent.
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Post by susanb on Jan 31, 2011 22:26:58 GMT 1
I know, and I've read a couple of his other non-horsey titles, and they're good too...it must have been this Vern Baker person who mucked up the works!
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Post by Claire on Feb 1, 2011 21:40:35 GMT 1
Added poll folks
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Post by darkhorse on Feb 2, 2011 20:51:38 GMT 1
Just voted. I have a feeling Flambards will win this one!
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