Month: April 2026
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How to win a pony with Dragon Books
Dragon Books was set up by Gordon Landsborough, who had started the immensely successful Armada Books. Dragon Books launched in 1966 with eight titles, including Mary O Hara’s My Friend Flicka, which was split into two separate volumes, with covers I think by Peter Archer.
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Winning a pony with Pat Smythe
I posted recently about the Dragon Books Win a Pony competition, but this wasn’t the first Win-a-Pony competition organised by a publisher (and besides the one I’m going to tell you about, there was also one attached to Kathleen Mackenzie’s Prize Pony, published by Evans in 1959. More on that later). Pat Smythe was an…