About the author
Eleanor Lowenton Clymer wrote widely for children, but despite this, biographical information on her is very thin on the ground.
Finding the book
Findable; Harry rather more so as it went into so many editions.
Links and sources
Terri Wear: Horse Stories – An Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography (horse books only)
Harry, the Wild West Horse
Atheneum, New York, 1963, illus Leonard Shortall
Macmillan, New York,1972
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964, 88 pp.
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965
Transworld Publishers, 1996
Harry the horse is out of a job when the farmer replaces him with a tractor. Farmer’s son Thomas decides he and Harry are going to go in a different direction, and he tries to get a job for them in a Wild West show.
The Horse in the Attic
Bradbury, 1983, illus Ted Lewin
Caroline’s family can’t afford riding lessons for her, but she tries to be patient about it. When the family move to a run down country house, she finds a huge picture of a racehorse in the attic of the old stable.