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The 1980s and the pony book
By the 1980s, the number of old titles being re-published obscured the fact the number of new titles had plummeted: only half as many were printed in the 1980s as in the 1960s. The new This was the decade that saw the publication of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse (1982), though it made little impact at the time. …
The 1960s and the pony paperback
The 1950s had seen more pony books published than any other decade, but the 1960s were not far behind. It was in the 1960s the paperback pony book really came into its own, after a rather slow start with Puffin Books, the children’s line of Penguin. Puffin printed Joanna Cannan’s Shetland pony story Hamish in 1944, as…
The pony book gift guide 2023
What do you get the pony book fan in your life, when you want to focus on independent authors and makers? Here are some ideas. Cressida Burton First up is the Ravensbay School series by Cressida Burton. The books are set at a boarding school with riding on the curriculum, and it’s a brilliant choice…