Category: North American Authors
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Wilbur, Frances
About the author Frances Wilbur wrote one horse book for children, a dog story, and a non fiction guide for the parent of the horse mad child. Look closely at the cover of this book in the section below – I bet it will be familiar. Frances Wilbur was born in 1918, in Mankato Minnesota,…
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Wilding, Suzanne
About the author Suzanne Wilding wrote three horse books, which formed a trilogy based on heroine Robin and her family. Wilding is possibly unique in aiming each book at a different reading level. Dream Pony for Robin is for beginner readers, with short sentences and many illustrations. Big Jump for Robin is a middle grade…
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Willis, Priscilla D
About the author Priscilla D Willis, who also wrote as Mary Scott Adams, wrote three horse books. The first two books are about Alfred and his horse The Saint; the third, as far as I know, is about different characters. Finding the booksAll the books are reasonably easy to find in the US though are…
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Wilson, Diane Lee
About the author Diane Lee Wilson writes historical horse stories. I haven’t been disappointed with one I’ve read yet. Her books are intensely readable; generally portraits of teenagers coming to terms with the world in which they find themselves, and that world’s restrictions. The author has loved horses since she was tiny (she was kicked…
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Windsor, Margaret A
About the author Margaret A Windsor has, as far as I know, written just the one horse book. The heroine has a hearing problem, but life is transformed once she has a hearing test. The title, Pretty Saro, is taken from a folk song collected in North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…
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Woody, Regina J
About the author Regina J Woody (1894–1983) was born in Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts. She learned to ride as a child, and rode all over the world: “cross-country in England, on great estates in Hungary, and even in the desert in Africa.” Horses were not her first love though; that was dance. Whilst at Dana…
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Young, John Richard
About the author John Richard Young wrote only four fictional books, which together made up the Don Revere and Raffy series. Raffy is an Arabian stallion, who is certainly a multi-talented animal, being trained as a reining and a cutting horse, and ending up as an Oympic eventer. John Richard Young is also well known…
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Adler, C S
About the author C S Adler (Carole S Adler) has written over 40 children’s books. Before becoming a full time writer, she was an English teacher. She moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1996, having lived most of her life in New York, and it was then that she started writing about horses. She has written…
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Adrian, Mary
About the author Mary Adrian (1908–95) was an American author. Her book The American Mustang was part of a series on American animals, aimed at the preservation of threatened species. Other titles included American Alligator and American Prairie Chicken – this last not quite such a strange thing as it might sound to British ears.…
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Allen, Allyn
About the author Allyn Allen is a pseudonym used by the author Irmengarde Eberle. Under the name Allyn Allen, the author wrote one horse book about Francie Lou from Texas. Finding the bookThe book is easy to find in the USA. It was not printed in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A Wear: Horse Stories,…