About the author
Nancy Hartwell was a pseudonym used by Ann Kilborn Cole. Under that name she wrote about antiques, but used her pseudonym to write children’s books.
Finding the book
The hardback is harder to find than the paperback.
Bibliography (horse books only)
A Blue for Illi
Holt, New York, 1954, 213 pp, illus Don Sibley
Reprinted as Blue Ribbon Winner
Berkley Highland Books, New York, 1966, pb
Illi is a war refugee from Hungary. She has lost everything: her family, her home and her horse, but eventually she finds her new life in America begins to restore her, and she is able to find pleasure in horses again.