Show Jumping Secret
Classic pony books
Available again
There are over 30 titles out now, including:
Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Pony Club Cup, Pony Club Challenge, Pony Club Trek (all available now)
Show Jumping Secret, I Had Two Ponies, Prince Among Ponies (available on pre-order)
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Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Show Jumping Secret
Josephine Pullein-Thompson’s classic story of a boy overcoming disability, and his cousins’ insistence on teaching him the wrong way to ride.
Patience, Prudence and Jackie know how to ride. At least, that’s what they think. They may not have as much success as they think they should have at shows, but that’s the judges’ fault. Not theirs.
Although he’s only had a few lessons himself, Charles is sure there’s a better way. Fortunately, Charles finds a riding school which teaches him that better way, and at the riding school he finds the grey mare, Secret. Can Charles and Secret overcome their problems and enter the Foxhunter show jumping classes?
Released on 16 September 2020.
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Author Jane Badger
Heroines on Horseback
The pony book galloped onto the children’s book scene with a flick of its rosetted bridle, and has remained a fixture ever since. Brave girls and nervous ones, scruffy ponies and ornaments of the show ring cantered through pony tale after pony tale, all fallen upon by an audience desperate to read anything that reflected their own passion for the pony.
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About Jane Badger
I’m a freelance writer, editor and proof reader. I’ve written Heroines on Horseback (2019), a gallop through the pony book in children’s fiction, and have written the world’s largest website on equine literature.
I’ve now started a publishing company to bring back the classics of pony fiction.