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Post by cally on Dec 25, 2008 6:36:28 GMT 1
I didn't get any fictional pony books but I am reading 'Jackie & the Pony Trekkers' and it has almost the EXACT same plot as 'Jackie's Pony Club Camp'. I think I will have a browse on the net for books- I deserve it! I haven't shouted at the kids all day!!!
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Post by cally on Dec 26, 2008 0:47:20 GMT 1
Mine are 7 and 11 and BOYS, Konstanze, with the 7 year old being energetic and always on the go, and the elder being a tad, shall we say, lazy and into computer games etc. As we speak the youngest is off with Dad working at the botanic gardens which he absolutely adores, the eldest is watching a dvd while the rats run around the loungeroom- actually, they've probably fallen asleep under a chair...
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Post by Claire on Dec 26, 2008 17:18:15 GMT 1
Well I have just got some great pony books from my mum and dad who have been to visit today. Sorry no pics as cant be bothered to get the scanner out at the moment.
Got a nice first edition with DJ of Pony Forest Adventure by JMB which I have never read!
A 1941 edition of A Pony for Jean. No jacket but loads of lovely Anne Bullen illustrations.
The Merry March Ponies by Elinore Havers
Also a copy of Shy Boy by Monty Roberts AND the DVD too!
Have'nt seen my brother yet so fingers crossed may get another one or two off him. My sister in law no doubt thinks its nuts a grown woman getting kids books for christmas but then she collects salt and pepper sets, so she can't really talk... ;D
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Post by happy on Dec 26, 2008 19:50:03 GMT 1
Hi everyone.
Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!!!!
I got patrica Letich books
First edition "Janet Young Rider" (I think i said before this was my favourite book as s child and I feel I have been reunited with my best friend) The book even smells the same I sat sniffing it for ages how silly am I. I never had the dust jacket as a child so it is great to see it.
First edition "Riding School Summer" First edition "Dream of Fair Horses" (as recommend by claire) Cant wait to read this one looks fantastic although I agree on the dreadful dust jacket what is all that about.
Currently reading "I wrote a pony book" Really please as found it in mint condion quite by chance on Christmas eve in a charity shop for 60p really really pleased. Have not really got into it yet but only a few pages in.
xxxx
Ps Very funny claire about the salt and pepper sets. Everyone kept saying to me from my husbands family what did you get for christmas? so I kept saying "Oh I got a couple of first edition books from the 60s" and if they asked what ones I said our quite rare ones from my childhood. They were quite impressed :-) much better then saying you got a couple of condiment pots any day.
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Post by Buster on Dec 26, 2008 20:58:25 GMT 1
No pony ones but my mum got me a copy of 'Twilight'. Its a big thing at my school (and thats amazing, people actually reading!) and now its a movie too I hear. Doesnt sound like my kinda thing, a sort of vampire romance :S, but I may give it a go..... if I run out of pony books
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Post by Claire on Dec 26, 2008 22:34:32 GMT 1
Oh yeah have heard of those vampire books they are supposed to be HUGE amongst teenagers. I'm about half way thru shy boy already!
Great books happy. I wish I was reading A Dream of Fair Horses for the first time - what a treat! Actually Janet Young Rider reminds me of Christmas as I remember getting it in one of those Armada pony box sets along with a few other pony books one Christmas. (It was under its other name of A Horse for the Hols) Funny also about you saying that about smells as I can remember the smell of those box sets too.
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Post by cally on Dec 26, 2008 23:26:11 GMT 1
I'm glad I'm not the only one who shoves their nose into old books and savours the smell- I always do it before I start reading. If 'old book smell' could be made into an air freshener, I'd buy it.
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Post by Claire on Dec 27, 2008 12:09:21 GMT 1
Yeah along with 'eau de horse' too.
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Post by kunuma on Dec 27, 2008 14:33:37 GMT 1
I got three that I hadn't read, which would be more of a treat if not for the fact that they are so short!! More like short stories than books. Pony Club Secrets, Issie and the Christmas pony, sort of book one of the series although it isn't (flashback!) This needed big print to even make it to the size of a book, and takes about 3 minutes to read! Phantom Stallion by Terrie Farley, Sea Shadow. Seems to be set in Hawaii, which according to the book seems to consist of herds of wild horses avoiding tsunamis!!! Winter Pony Jean Slaughter Doty, most intriguing thing about this one was it was even shorter - with even bigger print and still a small book! None of them based in this country, and the only thing I learnt was what they were going on about when they kept discussing floating ponies wearing floating boots!!! No - not back to the tsunami, apparently that is what they call travelling! I'd read them all by the end of Christmas Day!
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Post by Claire on Dec 27, 2008 18:51:21 GMT 1
Aw bless! I have actually read 2 of mine already too.
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Post by Buster on Dec 28, 2008 16:10:26 GMT 1
Hope you had a great christmas! Its funny, my mum had 3 boys and a girl and she says the boys are easy, but girls are much more difficult (and expensive! ) Maybe thats just because im the only child into horses!
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Post by Claire on Dec 28, 2008 17:21:30 GMT 1
I must say I think little boys are easier too. I think especially nowadays it must be hard to have girls with all the pressure they have for looking good from an early age. I agree with whoever it was - I think Cally - who said we have gone back in time with society's attitudes to women now.
Glad you enjoyed Christmas konstanze. Sounds like you have wonderful daughters anyway!
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Post by zoe on Dec 28, 2008 18:53:47 GMT 1
No pony books for me but I got Beedle the Bard from my mum but I haven't got further than admiring the pretty cover yet, and my brother broke the habit of buying me something quite useless and came up trumps witha £20 waterstones voucher - can't decide what to get though! With one daughter (10) and 2 sons (8 and 2.5) I'm not sure which is easiest, I think both girls and boys can be as bad/good as the other. Saying that, I'm guessing teenage girls will be worse than boys.
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Post by haffyfan on Dec 28, 2008 21:37:51 GMT 1
No books for me as we don't tend to bother with Christmas too much these days as tend to have what we want when we want it (within reason) and no kids in our family so it's really just a holiday....I think the dog had the most pressies! I do have my eye on the copy of Deep Sea Horse Jane badger has but am battling with my conscience over the price. Oh and I even got some salt and pepper pots (with a connemara and Irish cob on) from a friend now living in Ireland. There were also two tiny pots (huge thimbles OH thinks) also with ponies on but what they actually are/their use I couldn't say. I think I will decline beginning a collection
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Post by garej on Dec 29, 2008 12:03:16 GMT 1
I do have my eye on the copy of Deep Sea Horse Jane badger has but am battling with my conscience over the price. If it makes you feel any better, I paid more for my copy, and that has not got a dj. If I didnt have it already I would go for it. I am the same about another book of hers; it's a bit tattier than I would like it, but it is the edition I want, and it's not exactly common.
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Post by Claire on Dec 29, 2008 21:00:53 GMT 1
There was a cheaper copy of Deep Sea Horse on ebay with dj a while back so they do crop up. I wouodnt mind a copy either but I wouldnt pay a lot for it as it doesnt sound like my sort of story. Saving the big bucks in case I ever see a copy of Untamed!
I like the sound of your salt and pepper set. I have got some horse and cat ones but like you have never been tempted to collect em!
Zoe let me know what Beedle is like please after you have read it as I've heard rumours it is not very good!
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Post by Claire on Dec 30, 2008 16:20:34 GMT 1
Haha konstanze don't I just know it. I can't afford to keep 'em Oh well at least I get to read them first!
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Post by susanb on Dec 31, 2008 17:22:46 GMT 1
Aside from the three I treated myself to for Christmas (Crab the Roan, Sue Elaine Draws a Horse, Crowns), I got two Mary Gervaise books (Ponies and Holidays and Ponies in Clover) in my Christmas bookswap...I've not read her before, and know there's some heated debate from the love her/hate her factions...grin...don't want to hear it!! Looking forward to finding out for myself!
Then I got a gift card for Barnes and Noble (think Waterstones and you won't be far off)....luckily, Barnes and Noble online has a used section now too, where dealers can list their books for sale (like abebooks, in fact, often the same dealers/books!), so I was able to order September Horse by Anne Digby (a book everyone raves about, so I'm eagerly awaiting it's arrival!).
Then came the biggest treat of all....a $150 gift certificate to an equine bookdealer.....I zipped into Cambridge (MA) yesterday to see what I could find (she doesn't really list her juvenile stuff online, mores the pity, as it's a bit of a trek to get there). Most of the titles you probably won't have heard of, but got:
Jumping Lessons by Patricia Leitch (UK title A Pony to Jump), War Horse by Fairfax Downey (this one illustrated by Paul Brown), Top Kick, U.S. Army Horse by Helen Orr Watson, Ticktock and Jim by Keith Robertson (illustrated by Wesley Dennis) Dinny and Dreamdust by Doris Townsend (illustrated by Sam Savitt) Thudding Hooves by Blanche Chenery Perrin (illustrated by Sam Savitt) Spring Valley's Spotted Champion by Gary Christopher Vezzoli
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