Cowgirl Kate is one of the most excellent new series.
I also highly recommend Keeker and the Sneaky Pony. It’s also for first chapter book readers. Y’all still will enjoy it, I promise. 
Meet Catherine Corey Keegan Dana (everyone calls her Keeker). What she wants most of all is a pony.
Meet Plum.
Plum is a Shetland pony (who’s known to be a teeny bit sneaky). She rarely, if ever, thinks about little girls. She certainly doesn’t want one.
The drawings are also fabulous.
Heads Up Heels Down by C.W. Anderson = the best!!!
So many, so many. Among others, I loved “PILOT THE HUNTER” by H.M. Peel., “The Wild Heart” by Helen Griffiths, of course, all the Black Stallion books, the Flicka series, anything illustrated by C.W. Anderson. Oh, all the Marguerite Henry books.
I used to read “Little Black, a Pony” (wasn’t that a CW Anderson??) at my cousin’s! Loved it.
I have replaced a few of my childhood books but not all. It’s a work in progress.
Marguerite Henry’s books are amazing! I have a former partner who is NOT a reader but as he loves Arabs, got really into King of the Wind. I was pleased he was reading! Then he comes to me and says, “You know, I think some of this is not historically accurate”. I had to (very nicely and sensitively) point out to him that yes, it is NEWBERRY award winner, meaning ITS FOR KIDS:) But he was entranced! And that was always one of my big favorites!
THE PINTO by Perkins, illustrated by Ed Borein. Santa Barbara, 1927. I found this in a book store and bought as I remembered it from my grandmother’s house. This might be the book you’re thinking of? Text and illustrations are wonderful.
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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.[/QUOTE]
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I used to read “Little Black, a Pony” (wasn’t that a CW Anderson??) at my cousin’s! Loved it.
I have replaced a few of my childhood books but not all. It’s a work in progress.[/QUOTE]
Walter Farley, actually. There was also Little Black Goes to the Circus and The Little Black Pony Races.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/calsidyrose/6957332743/
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Black-Races-Walter-Farley/dp/0394813499
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This is another one I remember checking out of the library more than 30 years ago–a Sam Savitt that’s pretty scarce:
O-h-h-h, I HAVE that one!
I printed off the list from that site (do wish they’d clean up the duplicates and get rid of the fawning “I love you” messages) and was amazed at the books I could see on my own shelf that aren’t on the list.
Silver Heels, Pony Farm - Paul Brown
Horse Show, Salute, Deep Through The Heart, Twenty Gallant Horses, High Courage - Anderson
Pat’s Harmony
The Lonesome Sorrel
Black Horse of Culver
The Wild Heart
Breed of Giants
Scarlet Royal
Fools Over Horses
Bold Venture
Cinchfoot
Midnight
The Red Roan Pony
OH! How have I missed Equitainment ?
This is from their entry for C. W. Anderson
Thanks OP!
What a great site (and thread). And just in time for Christmas for this book-loving Mima and her 7 year old horse crazy granddaughter!!
Talk about a trip down Memory Lane! Some of those pictures, especially An Album of Horses, sent me right back to my childhood. At the time, I was as crazy about horses as I am now, but books were the only outlet I had to indulge my passion. I can’t wait to order some of these precious memories for her!
My favorite horse book EVER is Silver Snaffles, about Tattles the pony who takes a little girl into a magical world of talking ponies who teach her to ride. Love, love, LOVE that story and can’t wait to share it with my kids!
Abebooks and Alibris are your friends! I got my nephews the complete series of Anderson’s “Billy & Blaze” books, one a month buying them on Abebooks.
The Album of Horses - I have the Portfolio of Horses (All the prints from the book) ebay is dangerous. :yes:
Frog - The Horse Who Knew No Master - Oh my gosh the memories!!
I carried taht book around as a child, and lost it somewhere when my family went through tough times along with many other things.
I found it recently in a used book store and was amazed and overjoyed to see it! Silly me. I grabbed it.
I have been rebuilding my childhood library:
King of the Wind
Come on Seabiscuit
Frog
All the Black Stallion and Flame
Snowman the first one
Trying to remember others
Wasnt there one about the pony , Stroller?
When I was a horsey teenager, the town I grew up in (Moraga, in the SF Bay Area) had a library with a hitching rack out back! I used to ride my horse to the library, tie him up, and go in and read horse books.
My all-time favorite was “Light Horsekeeping” by Helen Mather.
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This is from their entry for C. W. Anderson
Thanks for the list Margie.
I read every horse book I could get my hands on as a little girl, but by far my favourites were the C.W. Andersons with his remarkable illustrations.
I have no doubt that he provided the template for me for everything I consider beautiful in a horse - a TB horse.
Over the years I’ve bought most of those books (ebay) and treasure them - but the 2 things I value most are two original drawings that Mr Anderson did for Blaze and the Forest Fire and Blaze and the Gypsys.
One of my favorites is “Horse Show” in which he lists AHSA rules and illustrates them in a hilarious manner. 
“In a case of bad style over fences the judges shall afix (sic) a penalty for such faults”.
In 83 lively sketches, the author offers all the humor and excitement of the horse show. Excellent, humorous drawings them demonstrate much of the terminology and the rules
Anderson as well as Paul Brown, Wesley Dennis and Sam Savitt books are pricey. I have a first illustrated edition of Steinbeck’s “The Red Pony” with color illustrations by Dennis.
OH, I just thought of another, very treasured, book. “Penny’s Worth” by Nancy Caffrey and beautifully illustrated. This is a sickness, I love Penny’s Worth and also have Caffrey’s “Hanover’s Wishing Star” but the “Show Pony” is illustrated by Paul Brown and out of my price range. 
Caffrey also wrote “Scene From the Saddle” which ought to bring back nostalgic memories for those who remember the horse set in New Brunswick. “The photos throughout the book are from the New Brunswick Horse Show at Johnson Park”
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I printed off the list from that site (do wish they’d clean up the duplicates and get rid of the fawning “I love you” messages) and was amazed at the books I could see on my own shelf that aren’t on the list.
Silver Heels, Pony Farm - Paul Brown
Horse Show, Salute, Deep Through The Heart, Twenty Gallant Horses, High Courage - Anderson
Pat’s Harmony
The Lonesome Sorrel
Black Horse of Culver
The Wild Heart
Breed of Giants
Scarlet Royal
Fools Over Horses
Bold Venture
Cinchfoot
Midnight
The Red Roan Pony
OH! How have I missed Equitainment ?
This is from their entry for C. W. Anderson
Which one of these featured the kid and his trainer raising a colt they named Red Badge to win the Kentucky Derby? That was one of my favorites.
Which one of these featured the kid and his trainer raising a colt they named Red Badge to win the Kentucky Derby? That was one of my favorites.
That was “Another Man O’ War” from 1966. You can buy a print from the book "Bulls Eye leading ahead Red Badge.
For what it’s worth (and to keep a thread on one of my all-time favorite subjects going!), a number of the items in Everythingbutwings’ list of C.W. Anderson works are his print portfolios (All Thoroughbreds; Post Parade; Turf and Bluegrass; Grey, Bay, and Chestnut; Colts and Champions; The World of Horses; Before the Bugle; and Accent on Youth; and Man o’ War–Horse of the Century (those last two aren’t on the list):
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/30709-man-o-war-folio
I have five or six of these, including the Man o’ War portfolio, which came from the gift shop at Kentucky Horse Park circa 1982.
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Over the years I’ve bought most of those books (ebay) and treasure them - but the 2 things I value most are two original drawings that Mr Anderson did for Blaze and the Forest Fire and Blaze and the Gypsys.[/QUOTE]
Fred, you are my idol! You have original Andersons? Are they pencil, ink, what? Too cool!
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