About the author
Lynda Kelly writes the Amy and Clown series. Her riding career started at the age of eight, when she had a donkey ride at the church fete. She says: ‘After three years of determined nagging (and practising riding on an old saddle), my parents bought me a six-month old, wild, Dartmoor colt from Bampton Fair. I tamed him, walked him for miles on the roads and eventually rode him. With no saddle, I was off more than I was on, but a fearless passion to ride won through. Needless to say, Clown is modelled on this pony!’ She’s owned several more ponies over the years, and her own children rode. Now she no longer rides (she is a bookseller, specialising in literature on broadcasting and mass media), she fills the gap with the Amy and Clown series.
Finding the books
All in print, and available as paperbacks and ebooks.
Links and sources
The author
Lynda Kelly’s page on Amazon
Lynda Kelly’s website
Series
Amy and Clown
The Most Horrible Pony
Magazine-Page Pony
Arab Dream Horse, Not
Blister Parkin and the Bullies
Disappearing Ponies
Bibliography
The Most Horrible Pony
Kelly Publications, Tiverton, Devon, 2012, 202 pp. Illus with photos by the author
Available in ebook format
Amy wanted a beautiful pony who would win at gymkhanas and shows, but what she gets from her Great Aunt Myrtle is Clown. He is anything but the pony of Amy’s dreams: he bites, bucks and won’t be caught.
Magazine-Page Pony
Kelly Publications, Tiverton, Devon, 2012, 188 pp. Illus with photos by the author
Available in ebook format
Blister Parkin’s pony is mad. Do Amy and her friends want Blister to join them? Then Amy’s hit by something else: who does Clown really belong to?
Arab Dream Horse, Not
Kelly Publications, Tiverton, Devon, 2012, 188 pp. Illus with photos by the author
Available in ebook format
Amy loves Arab horses, especially Pasha, whom she used to dream of riding. Pasha was given to Holly, but then after a tragedy, Holly is left desperate, and Amy is left wondering what to do to help.
Blister Parkin and the Bullies
Kelly Publications, Tiverton, Devon, 2012, 188 pp. Illus with photos by the author
Available in ebook format
Amy, Dagmar, Carla, Jack and Blister have done well in show jumping, and between them, win most of the prizes going. However, they are collecting enemies at the same time. William and Kelly Flint make some of the group’s lives a misery. How can they be stopped? And what about Blister’s drunken father, who bullies him at home?
Disappearing Ponies
Ebook, 2014. Illus with over 50 photos.
Dagmar is seriously pleased when ponies arrive in the field next to her paddock. And even more pleased when she gets to naming them. Holly Brookfield is planning to launch her pony sanctuary, which turns out to be harder than she thought. This story also shows that being disabled can be enabling. Amy has lots of problems, including Blister! She enjoys Clown even though he likes to live up to his name. Maybe he will become a reformed character. We’ll see…
