Category: Author list
Pony book history
A listing of all the pony book history posts: The pony book in the 1920s and 1930s: how it all began The pony book in World War II: part one The pony book in World War II: part two Pony books in the 1940s 1950s series fiction: Georgia, Jackie and the Three Jays The 1950s…
Fachiri, Antonio P
About the author Antonio P Fachiri (1880–1942) was born in New York in 1880. He was educated at Yale, which he left in 1903, leaving for London to work at merchants Ralli Brothers. He went on to work as a director of companies with interests in British Columbia and America. He entered wholeheartedly into English…
Orrom, Michael and Mary
About the authors The Secret Pony was originally made for television in 1970 by documentary film makers Michael Orrom, and his wife, Mary Beales. The book The Secret Pony, which was published in 1977, I presume was based on this film, and is illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Ten-year-old Jane longs for a pony, but…
Did men write pony books?
This post originally appeared on my old blog. I had completely forgotten I had written it until I was searching for information on Antonio Fachiri. I read it, and thought, oh, that’s not too bad, is it? So here it is again. Recently I’ve been thinking about male authors who write horse and pony books…
Goll, Claire
About the author Claire Goll (1890–1977) was born Klara Liliane Aischmann in Nürnberg, and grew up speaking German and French. She studied literature and philosphy at the Universities of Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris, and became a poet, publishing her first book of poetry, Mitwelt, in Berlin in 1918. In 1911, she married Heinrich Studer,…
Henley, Trevor
About the author Trevor Henley wrote three children’s books in the 1940s. The first two, Let’s Find Adventure (1947) and Let’s Find Hidden Treasure (1947), were both non-fiction. The publisher, somewhat breathlessly, described Let’s Find Adventure as ‘something entirely new in boys’ books … which makes it possible for the reader actually to live adventure.’…
Delgado, Alan
About the author Alan Delgado (1909–1983) is probably best known in equestrian circles for his work with the Pony Club Annual, but he also wrote at least one pony book. He was born in London, and most of his working life was spent in publishing and printing. His father, Gershom Delgado, was a director (and…
Short story collections (USA)
The books Short story collections were just as popular in America and Canada as they were in Britain. Listed below are just a sample of the horse story collections that have appeared over the years. Grateful thanks to Susan and Christina for all their help with this section. Titles The American Girl Book of Horse…
Short story collections (UK)
The books There are a lot of collections of short stories out there. They were convenient presents for those who had a pony-mad person to buy for, but who didn’t know what they liked. The books could be put together easily if you simply went for extracts, dressing the book up further by getting a…
Farley, Walter – UK Printings
Many of us will know the paperbacks of the Black Stallion series, which were published in various editions by Knight, starting in the 1970s. I still have the few that were printed with the lovely pictorial cover illustrations (mostly uncredited: The Island Stallion’s Fury is by S Hagsted, so I assume the others are too).…