I’m clearly too young
I remember the story, have it, and don’t have it at hand at present to look. Most of my books right now are camping in a climate-controlled storage space due to major floor issues in the current house. I was trying to decrease weight to keep it from totally collapsing. However, the new house will be here getting set up in a month or so, and I’ll bring the books home! If nobody has answered by then, I’ll look it up for you when I get my hands on that book again.
Offhand, though I haven’t read it in years, I want to say the title is “Tall as the Stars” or something like that. Something about stars.
Yes, DT! It looks like it is “Tall as the Stars” by Janet Lambert. Thank you.
As others have said, time travel back to my childhood. Since it’s too cold and icy to ride here, I just read “Justin Morgan had a Horse” out loud to my fella, who is a Morgan, and I bawled throughout the whole thing. (He did not appear to feel any strong connection.)
Thanks for resurrecting this thread! Besides all of the Marguerite Henry books, the Black Stallion series, and the Summer Pony, I also remember reading (and re-reading, and re-reading) a series about a family with a pony called Windy Foot, along with a 3-book series (could have been more eventually that I missed) about a girl who ended up going to live with grandparents(?) and she ended up riding their horses Gypsy and I think Nimblefoot (I could be wrong, gosh it’s been so long!), and I also still occasionally pick up my copies of Sundust Devil Horse and Bonnie and the Haunted Farm (which I read before I realized that there was at least one book about Sunbonnet prior to that one). And didn’t the Trixie Belden mystery series happen to have horses in it as well?
Now I’d like to go out to the barn and start digging around to find all my old books that are in storage. And all the talk of King of the Wind got me started down an internet rabbit hole and I started clicking back through my Appaloosa’s pedigree to see that he goes back to the Godolphin Arabian through all three of his sons Lath, Regulus and Cade. I know that pretty much every thoroughbred does, but it’s still fun to see it in writing.
Drawstraws, yes the Windyfoot books are great! Sleigh Bells for Windyfoot is such a great holiday read; Christmas-y start to finish. That’s the only one of the books I have been fortunate enough to read; some day I will track down all 3? 4? of them.
I’ve had the Sharon Wagner Gypsy books since childhood, in the paperback Whitman editions I could actually pick up at KMart! Gypsy from Nowhere, Gypsy and Nimblefoot, Gypsy and the Moonstone Stallion.
I adored the Windy Foot series as well. It was so well-written and what child hasn’t fantasized about owning a dapple grey Shetland pony? I loved the fact that the heroine of the book (Tish) wasn’t terribly girly and Windy Foot’s owner Toby was such a nice boy but not without his flaws.
Here is more information on the books, in case anyone is interested:
I loved many of the books ya’ll are talking about but the one that gave me the most help was “Pamela and the Blue Mare.” It was a book about a little girl who was afraid of riding, but was brought around by a old riding coach who used V. Littauer’s training plan for stabilizing a horse. I was taking lessons from our MFH who was also using Littauer’s training methods. It felt eerie to me to be living the same type of lessons as the fictional character was getting in the book. Also, my pony was a roan like Pamela’s horse so I borrowed the horse’s name from the book for my pony and used it yet again as my internet handle. Here I am- Frosty M for Frosty Morning- from the book I treasured so long ago.
The book is still valued. Last time I checked it was $199.00 on Ebay.
