About the author
Lois Lamplugh worked part time at a residential school for boys with special problems. She also wrote prolifically: 310 stories for a Harlech televsion series Tucker and Taylor, and novels including The Rifle House Friends. She has written one book with some equine content: The Winter Donkey.
Finding the book
Easy to find.
Links and sources
Dustjacket of The Winter Donkey
Bibliography (pony books only)
The Winter Donkey
Andre Deutsch, London, 1980, cover Glenys Ambrus, 126 pp.
Matthew’s little sister tries to persuade his grandfather to winter one of his beach donkeys on his Cornish smallholding. Eventually he agrees, though their grandmother says “Animals always mean tears.” When it is Easter, and time for Goldie to go back, Matthew remembers these words.