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Jackie the Pit Pony

Baumann, Hans
Year published

English language edition: London, 1958
Illustrator

Ulrik Schramm
Author

Baumann, Hans
Publisher

Oxford University Press

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Jackie the Pit Pony

Baumann, Hans

Jackie, the pony from the Steppes, likes his own way.

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Jackie is a pony from the Steppes: freedom means everything to him, and he refuses to be tamed by the farmer who owns him. And so he is sold to a man who owns a mine. Although he likes the mine owner’s daughter, he rebels again when he is set to work, but at least he realises there are other things in life besides the sun.

Publishing history
Originally published as Hänschen in der Grübe, Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen
As Jackie the Pit Pony, Oxford University Press, London, 1958, illus Ulrik Schramm

 

Hans Baumann
Year published

English language edition: London, 1958
Illustrator

Ulrik Schramm
Author

Baumann, Hans
Publisher

Oxford University Press

Baumann, Hans

Hans Baumann was born in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, and worked as a teacher in Bavaria. He started his literacy career writing poems, some of which he set to music. Before the ware, he wrote plays which were produced in the State Theatre, Berlin and the Burg Theatre Vienna. He served at the Russion front during the war, and was taken prisoner in France. He continued to write after the war, while he worked as a labourer, and wrote several widely translated books for children.

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