Reviews
An attractive cover and an interesting introductions and a book that’s very much of its time. Some of the information is outdated now eg leaning back when jumping but fits with the old-fashioned feel of the book. It has a variety of characters (human, equine,dog and goat though I think that the humans are quite two dimensional) , a slightly weird (by today’s standards) setting and there’s a good plot. A good book for pony book nostalgia. (Dawn)
Another delightful book in the Bunts series … (Gillian)
Available in eBook
Publishing history
Country Life, London, 1935 (with Eva Ducat), 135pp.
Country Life Junior Library, London, date uncertain
Jane Badger Books, 2020
Many thanks to Henry Sotheran Ltd for the picture of the earliest edition.
Aunt Matilda and Roger are staying at Lindon-on-Sea for a month for his health. Aunt Matilda is a grade A fusspot, and Roger’s life is constricted and dull in the extreme. Then Roger meets a group of children and their ponies, Miss Rhoda Belton and Wilderney Bay. “Fancy turning a perfectly good boy into a Ghastly Suburban Figure. Something ought to be done about it,” says Miss Rhoda. So they do something about it, and also about the threat by Miss Rhoda’s landlord to throw her out.
Bunts
The Ponies of Bunts, 1933
Sea Ponies, 1935
Ponies and Caravans, 1941
Earlier editions
Author: Marjorie Mary Oliver and Eva Ducat
