


Carol Vaughan isn’t particularly well known now: the first of her books about the Percheron, Matilda, was published in paperback but none of her other books, as far as I know, were. Books about heavy horses are not common, particularly Percherons. Carol Vaughan’s books are amongst the most attractive of pony books visually: I love Constance Marshall’s illustrations (and have a theory that she did some of the Armada Jill covers, but I’ve never been able to prove it), and the Michael Charlton one for King of the Castle is a delight.

