About the author
John W Chambers (b.1933) has written several children’s books, which vary from adventure stories ( Fire Island Forfeit) to Siamese cats (Fritzi’s Winter). He has written, as far as I am aware, one horse book, The Colonel and Me. Its heroine, Gussie, loathes the idea of learning to ride.
Finding the book
This book is easy to find in the USA. It was not printed in the UK.
Links and sources
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
National Library of Congress
Bibliography (horse books only)
The Colonel and Me
Atheneum, New York, 1985, 190 pp
Colonel Meslenko is a Tartar, and Gussie hates both him and the fact he is teaching her to ride. This was not how she had seen the summer go at all – she had planned a lazy summer on the beach and reading, and not having to learn to ride.
