About the author
American author Margaret Glover Otto wrote several children’s books involving animals, including the two horse stories The Little Brown Horse (1959) and Cocoa (1953). She also wrote, with Stuart Otto, The Horse and Pony Book, 1954.
Finding the books: both are reasonably easy to find; the British printing of The Little Brown Horse is quite hard to source, but not expensive when it does turn up.
Links and sources
Terri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography
Thanks to Lisa Catz for the summary and photo of Cocoa
Bibliography (horse books only)
Cocoa
Holt, New York, 1953, 90 pp, illus Peter Spier
Peter’s dream comes true when his father’s plough horse, Molly, has a colt, and it is given
to Peter for his very own. Now he will have his own cowpony! But Peter has to be patient, as the colt has a lot of growing to do first. His other pets help him to pass the time, and in the end, Peter gets all that he wanted.
The Little Brown Horse
Knopf, New York, 1959, unpaginated, illus Barbara Cooney
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965, illus Barbara Cooney
The little brown horse travels around, meeting different animals who have all recently given birth. When he gets home, he finds that a foal has been born at home; he now has a sibling.
