I stumbled across this site by accident (no affiliation), and boy!..what a walk down memory lane! It was almost as if someone went to my mom’s garage sale and bought all of my old books!
http://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/catalogues-lists/booklists/horse-books?page=1
I remember many of them. Nice site!
I had quite a few of those… I couldn’t get enough horse books! I remember one of my favorite books was Bonny’s Big Day by James Herriot. I loved the artwork in that one, still have it on the bookshelf in fact.
There was another one that I loved so much when I was a bit younger… I can’t remember the name but I remember the illustrations of a horse in a field of buttercups/yellow flowers. I think the horse was a chestnut. I wish my mom had kept that one, I was absolutely obsessed with it and I remember looking at the pictures and daydreaming about galloping through fields of buttercups on my very own pony 
Neat site. And quite a few unusual books.
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There was another one that I loved so much when I was a bit younger… I can’t remember the name but I remember the illustrations of a horse in a field of buttercups/yellow flowers. I think the horse was a chestnut. I wish my mom had kept that one, I was absolutely obsessed with it and I remember looking at the pictures and daydreaming about galloping through fields of buttercups on my very own pony :)[/QUOTE]
Just a hunch, but that might be All The Pretty Horses (1974ish) by Susan Jeffers. It was a beautiful picture book which I loved as a kid - rich colors, dream horses, the sort of book you could pore over forever.
Gift Horse is a Fjord!
I’m having serious Fjord envy/obsession these days!
Neat site!!
when i graduated from high school i stored all my old books at my grandmother’s house. I had a tack trunk FULL of my childhood memories: Marguerite Henry, Walter Farley, and so many others. My grandmother didn’t understand how i felt about books. She thought, a book, once read, is no good.
SHE TRADED ALL THOSE BOOKS FOR HARLEQUIN ROMANCE NOVELS!!
I was gone working the race track and came home at Christmas. I didn’t let her see me cry, she would have been so upset. I knew she didn’t mean to hurt me, she simply had no idea what they meant to me. but i wept.
I remember a book i read, i THINK it was called Silver Dollar. About a boy and a gray horse. I really don’t remember much about it but i liked it.
There’s a whole site of horse books at http://www.ponydom.com/books/index.html that was started from a thread like this many years ago.
This is one of those book threads that should be kept in a special place for ever - I’m feelig nostalgic.
My grandson is two and I’m responsible for his English language reading since he is being raised in Switzerland. The beautiful (evil) thing is that his Dad does not encourage the horsey thing as it is perceived as expensive, so I am also
determined to see he gets a horsey fix when he is here. He loves horses, ponies, trucks and horse trailers!! tee he - dreadful grandmother here!
a great site and remember many!
also remember Marjorie Reynolds (WONDERFUL writer) a Horse called Mystery
And the Mountain Pony series by Henry Larom (owner of the Valley Ranch in Cody Wyo)
but for sure loved anything by Marguerite Henry and CW Anderson (Blaze!) and of course Thelwell! I also remember a great kids book about Snowman.
And a fabulous book about a horse in military called Frog the horse that knew no master. It is a gem, true, and wonderfully written. So great to remember these!!
Thanks, hundredacres, for my new shopping list!
When I was in grade school, my small school (think MAYBE 400 kids K-8th grade) would have library book sales every year. And every year I would go, with my saved allowance (probably 15 bucks) and buy every. single. horse book on sale. I would come home with stacks and stacks of books. I loved to read as a kid. Sometimes, after getting off the bus I wouldn’t even make it halfway down the driveway before I would just sit down and start reading. Good memories. I read some of those books, but not all of them.
Thanks OP for the trip down memory lane!
And a fabulous book about a horse in military called Frog the horse that knew no master. It is a gem, true, and wonderfully written. So great to remember these!!
By Col. S. P. Meek
My mom had tons of wonderful horse books that she passed on to me as a child. Many of them were a group put together by Grosset & Dunlap called “Famous Horse Stories”.
While I still have many of the ones my mom gave me, my son, the Winglet, gifted me with the entire set off of ebay a couple years ago.
Frog, Ticktock and Jim, The Golden Stallion, Phantom Roan, The Magnificent Barb, etc.
I read them all again.
I read every single horse book I could get my hands on as a kid… hoping that as we clean out my mother’s overstuffed garage I’ll find the box that has all my old books, though over the years I’ve replaced a lot of them as I find them at book sales and garage sales. The other day I went to a book outlet and bought two Saddle Club books and read 'em both that afternoon, along with Henry’s “Born To Trot.” (:
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Neat site!!
when i graduated from high school i stored all my old books at my grandmother’s house. I had a tack trunk FULL of my childhood memories: Marguerite Henry, Walter Farley, and so many others. My grandmother didn’t understand how i felt about books. She thought, a book, once read, is no good.
SHE TRADED ALL THOSE BOOKS FOR HARLEQUIN ROMANCE NOVELS!!
I was gone working the race track and came home at Christmas. I didn’t let her see me cry, she would have been so upset. I knew she didn’t mean to hurt me, she simply had no idea what they meant to me. but i wept.
I remember a book i read, i THINK it was called Silver Dollar. About a boy and a gray horse. I really don’t remember much about it but i liked it.[/QUOTE]
Oh man, I would’ve cried too. You should buy them back! You can always find big lots of children’s horse books for sale on eBay. I know they wouldn’t be your personal copies, but at you would have the same titles in your library again.
Here’s a very nice-looking lot of Marguerite Henrys for twenty bucks!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=marguerite+henry+lot&_sacat=0
If you need additional enabling in this effort I’m your gal.
And here is Keep a Silver Dollar:
Fortunately, I held on to most of the horse books I had growing up, but after “discovering” eBay as an adult, I bought back most of the ones that somehow went missing. And a whole lot more that I never owned but checked out of my grade school and middle school libraries (most of those were the C.W. Anderson titles). A few of these are among the first horse books I can ever remember reading–Big Black Horse, which was a picture-book version of the The Black Stallion, The Story of Snowman, the Cinderella Horse by Tony Palazzo, and America’s Horses and Ponies by Irene Brady. Does anyone else remember that last one? It looked like this:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8525630919&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26tn%3Damerica%27s%2Bhorses%2Band%2Bponies
This is another one I remember checking out of the library more than 30 years ago–a Sam Savitt that’s pretty scarce:
How would I have gotten through my childhood without books? Especially horse books. Like the other posters I have horse books stashed in relatives basements. This will motivate me to rescue those treasures and let another generation have the pleasure of losing themselves in a good book. Thanks OP for the trip down memory lane.
Thanks to the earlier thread on The Black Stallion, I just downloaded 4 of those! My husband asks what I’m reading - I just mumble, “oh, stuff”.
I have several of those, have some more on my wish list at paperbackswap, and they come in gradually.
There’s one I was thinking about the other day, wish I remembered the title. It was about an Indian pony raised in the wild, a pinto (lots of good illustrations). Followed his life in the wild and then his life with the Indians after he was captured and became a brave’s war horse. I remember a mountain lion on top of a cliff going to jump down scene. The lion might have nailed his equine buddy. I also think maybe the brave taught him to limp? (as a decoy, to lure the enemy into following.) It’s a LONG time ago, though.
OMG, I HAVE Ticktock and Jim, and the phantom roan…had not thought of them in years!! SUCH great stories. Will have to dig them out and love them all again. And yes, it was the Story of Snowman, by Tony P. I hope those writers knew what a profound influence they had on so many little readers!!
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OMG, I HAVE Ticktock and Jim, and the phantom roan…had not thought of them in years!! SUCH great stories. Will have to dig them out and love them all again. And yes, it was the Story of Snowman, by Tony P. I hope those writers knew what a profound influence they had on so many little readers!![/QUOTE]
I hope they do too (if they’re still around!). I read those books, sometimes in my backyard under the tree’s surrounded by my Breyer’s…after I’d read scene, I’d play it out :). I remember building stables and jumps out of twigs. Ahhh, life was so much simpler then.
I’ve got a picture of my daughter sitting out on a tractor tire reading, “Cowgirl Kate” to her pony. It’s one of the most precious sight I’ve ever captured. I only wished I had my own pony then to read to!
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