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Post by susanb on May 16, 2010 20:38:22 GMT 1
Claire...correct on both counts!
BTW, I know I haven't provided a clue yet for 22 and 25...still trying to make them up!
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Post by haffyfan on May 16, 2010 20:45:01 GMT 1
think 18 is horse called September
Stab in the dark for 11 - Satin and Silk? Other child authors I can think off are Moyra Charlton, Avril knott and Deborah Bennett...ooh hers have a black pony too don't they...Jeans Black diamond for another stab in dark?
Now I'm cheating lol
7 is from an edition of Flambards I've seen before...again figured author and went to search her bibliography
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Post by susanb on May 16, 2010 23:04:51 GMT 1
7 and 18 correct Haffy! None of the above for number 11 though!
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Post by susanb on May 17, 2010 3:58:01 GMT 1
haffy...you're correct on #14, Cammie's Challenge as well...I missed your answer intially, 'cause this thread had rolled over to a new page!
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Post by susanb on May 17, 2010 4:02:05 GMT 1
All that currently remain unsolved...and I finally came up with clues for 22 and 25!
2 The title of this book is the antithesis of number 11, guess that one, and this will surely follow!
10 The cover art of this US edition is taken from the internal art of the original UK edition, so in a way, it has the same illustrator....but a different title altogether! A very famous, collectable author
11 The shocker about this book by a British child author is that it actually got a US printing....talk about obscure on two shores!
13 This popular title had not one, but two authors
18 This author wrote only two pony books....she's better known for schooling girls than equines
21 This omnibus had three authors...the most prolific pony book authors EVER
22 This is one of those books that reminds me that the diversity of riding in Australia is very akin to that in the US (or Canada, for that matter)....the protagonists in this book from Oz are doing what in America would be called "riding line"
25 This author produced just the one pony book.....I found it was best accompanied by a glass of awesome single malt
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Post by Claire on May 17, 2010 11:15:41 GMT 1
22. The Boundary Riders by Joan Phipson - should have got that earlier seeing as the cover art is so similar to the other Phipson one!
Ok still blundering about in the dark with the others. Tell me if I am on the right track!
10. Is this by Primrose Cumming? Maybe Four Rode home or No Place for Ponies?
13. Is it one of the Oxus series?
21. I assume its by the PTS. Is it one of the Black Beauty's Family omnibuses, tho didnt think they were published in the US.
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Post by susanb on May 17, 2010 14:25:08 GMT 1
Claire, yes!
22 is The Boundry Riders by Joan Phipson
10 is Mystery Pony (aka No Place for Ponies) by Primrose Cumming
13 is The Far Distant Oxus by Katherine Hull and Pamela Whitlock (the whole trilogy had US printings, at more or less the same time as the UK editions)
21 is Black Beauty's Family by the Pullein-Thompsons (Black Beauty's Family and Black Beauty's Clan both had US printings!)
Only three to go! 2, 11 and 25....I'm not surprised that 11 and 25 are not yet solved, but 2 is pretty well known!!
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Post by Claire on May 17, 2010 20:37:44 GMT 1
Ooh surprised I done that well! ;D
Still pondering over the whisky clue and trying to work out whether it is needed to make reading the book bearable or to complement the excellence of it.....or indeed the title of the book has something to do with whisky!!!
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Post by susanb on May 18, 2010 0:00:21 GMT 1
None of the above!! I didn't exactly say whisky, I said "single malt" ;D ;D
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Post by Claire on May 18, 2010 10:53:59 GMT 1
Hang on you say 'scotch' instead of whisky over there don't you? Has it got anything to do with Scotland?
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Post by susanb on May 18, 2010 14:29:07 GMT 1
You're on the trail at last, yes, it's set in Scotland! ;D ;D Pay attention to all the words in the clue though, there's still more to be gleaned from it!
And yes, we say Scotch for Scotch whisky, to differentiate it from our native Bourbon, which is also whisky, but again, always called Bourbon.
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Post by susanb on May 18, 2010 16:36:42 GMT 1
Moving the three remaining titles forward and combining them with the clues! 2 War Horse by Michael MorpurgoBritish author, US printing. Title contains anthisis of number 11. Really famous book/author. 11 Pax by Muriel HodderBritish child author, US printing. Title antithesis of number 2. Pretty obscure book to have had printings in the US! 25 British author wrote only one pony book, set in Scotland. I found it was best accompanied by a glass of awesome single malt. US printing.
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Post by Claire on May 18, 2010 19:52:39 GMT 1
This quiz is stopping me doing any work!!! ;D
The only book that springs to mind for 25 is Pony Trekking Summer by Jane McIlwaine but not sure what that has to do with malt as I havent read it. Been trying to think of brands of whisky....er scotch...but none seems to fit a pony book!
I dont recognise 11 at all and its driving me nuts wondering what the little people whose hands you can just see are doing!
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Post by susanb on May 19, 2010 1:38:26 GMT 1
Hey, I'm suffering enough at your hands on the other quiz: misery loves company :-)
25 isn't Pony Treking Summer (really enjoyed that book, btw). Leave the single malt bit of the clue...Scotland was all that you were going to get from it....move on to "awsome"
Stop staring at 11! It's hypnotising you!!! Look at 2, which will get you 11 once you solve it. Think! A horse, in harness, in obvious distress, not Black Beauty, but a famous book/author. You can do it!!
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Post by Claire on May 19, 2010 11:28:55 GMT 1
Hey, I'm suffering enough at your hands on the other quiz: misery loves company :-) Was just going to say the same thing! ;D Yes I feel like I should know no. 2 and the pic looks familiar but I seem to have a mental block over it. Its driving me crazy. Someone else help please!
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Post by kunuma on May 19, 2010 15:55:56 GMT 1
Number 2 is driving me crazy too, is it from a Black Beauty relative series?? Is the fact that the horse looks black with a star a clue or a red herring??
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Post by susanb on May 19, 2010 16:58:47 GMT 1
Kunuma...2 is definitley no connection to Black Beauty at all. The author has written a number of non-pony books, this is the FAMOUS PONY BOOK. Really FAMOUS. CURRENTLY famous. Known to people who don't know pony books AT ALL.
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Post by susanb on May 20, 2010 15:09:21 GMT 1
More clues!!!
2 This author has been shortlisted for the Carnegie FOUR times in the last decade, though not for his pony book, which is nonetheless his best known work
11 the one word title of this book is the antithesis of one of the words in the title of 2, albeit in a different, older, language.
25 The name of a fictional mountain in Scotland is part of the title of this book.
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Post by Claire on May 20, 2010 23:15:47 GMT 1
2. By George I think I've got it! War Horse by Michael Morpurgo? (If it's wrong I'm leaving to take up trainspotting instead ;D )
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Post by Claire on May 20, 2010 23:26:19 GMT 1
Hmm so could no. 11 be Pax by Muriel Hodder? Thats it! Someone else can guess the last one....
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Post by susanb on May 20, 2010 23:36:32 GMT 1
Yes! Yes! Send up the fireworks!!! Cue the brass band!! Break out the bubbly!!!
2 is War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (not only a book, but a West End play, soon to be a Broadway play, and I understand the movie options have been bought).
11 is Pax by Muriel Hodder....I wouldn't even have used this, if it weren't for the clue War Horse would provide, because it is so obscure....isn't it stunning that it had a US printing?
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Post by Claire on May 21, 2010 0:15:52 GMT 1
Way-hay! Must have been the heat that has finally thawed out my brain. We have actually had a hot day today!!! Its 20 degrees C hotter than last week! BTW I wouldnt mind a pic of Pax if you have one as I have got a blank space next to Muriel Hodder's info on my website
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Post by susanb on May 21, 2010 1:01:04 GMT 1
Will post the picture for Pax tomorrow....had a hunt through my netbook and flash drive, and realized I only had the piece of the pic that I used for the quiz on them....the whole pic must be on my pc, will boot it up and pull it off in the morning. Meanwhile, to hold you, here's the whole pic of the most challenging US edition of War Horse!
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Post by Claire on May 21, 2010 12:14:03 GMT 1
Thanks very much susan! Also thanks for the American ed of War Horse pic. I think the full pic would have given it away a bit more! What is strange is that I thought I recognised it as an old pony book which was why I couldn't think of the answer. There must be a similar pic of a horse somewhere out there in pony book land.
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Post by susanb on May 21, 2010 16:25:12 GMT 1
Claire, re War Horse, I don't know if I've seen anything like it before, but it IS a very old fashioned cover for such a modern book!! (I like it though, since it's a WWI story, it seems very appropriate). Anyway, here's Pax! As bad as the snippet of the picture was, the whole thing is much worse, isn't it?
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Post by susanb on May 21, 2010 16:27:11 GMT 1
Only one left unsolved!! 25 Male British author, set in Scotland. US printing. The name of a fictional mountain is part of the title. "sett" is a Wampanoag suffix that means "hill", so you find it in many place names: Massachusetts, Naragansett, Wachusett, etc. Likewise many places in Italy contain the word "Monte".....so, what word would turn up in a book set on a Scottish mountain?
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Post by Claire on May 23, 2010 19:29:46 GMT 1
I think you will have to put us out of our misery. Dont know about the others but my brain has given up!
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Post by susanb on May 23, 2010 19:47:13 GMT 1
LOL...ok Claire, the book that could not be named is: The Horse on Ben Awe by Mel Wayne I was trying to get to "awe" with "awesome", and the whole mountain thing was leading to "Ben". Oh well, I tried!
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Post by Claire on May 25, 2010 19:19:21 GMT 1
Forgot to say thanks for letting us know the answer susan, I wouldn't have got it anyway! (Also thanks for the pic of Pax - its a strange one alright!)
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Post by susanb on May 26, 2010 15:27:27 GMT 1
Poor old Mel Wayne, unknown in his own country! ;D ;D
Glad to help with the pic of Pax!
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