Thompson, Jean

About the author

Jean Thompson (b.1933) wrote several children’s books, of which one was a horse book.  

Finding the book
Very easy indeed to find in America; it was not published in the UK.

Links and sources
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph.


Bibliography (horse books only)


Ghost Horse of the Palisades

William Morrow, New York, 1986, 101 pp, illus Steve Marchesi

Molly lives a quiet life on a ranch with her father, after her mother died a few years ago in a car crash. Molly has dreams. She wants her father to marry her teacher, Miss Miller, and she wants to be the one to tame Ghost, a wild stallion who steals her father’s best mare.