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The Gift-Wrapped Pony

Farrell, Anne
Author

Farrell, Anne
Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton, Australia
Series

Guara

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The Gift-Wrapped Pony

Farrell, Anne

The Mitchell family’s pony, Arum, is a confirmed escaper, and at last their father has had enough. If they can’t stop her getting loose, she will be sold, and so the family start their Save Arum campaign.

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Printing history
Hodder & Stoughton, Australia, 1973
Germany, Boje, 1973
Brockhampton, London, 1974
Knight, London, pb, 1977

The Mitchell family’s pony, Arum, is a confirmed escaper, and at last their father has had enough. If they can’t stop her getting loose, she will be sold, and so the family start their Save Arum campaign.

The Guara series
The Gift-wrapped Pony
Calf on Shale Hill
Eight Days at Guara
Shadow Summer

 

Anne Farrell

Farrell, Anne

Anne Farrell also writes under the name Anne Heazlewood. She was born on 24 June, 1954, in Latrobe, Tasmania. She was one of several authors the paperback arm of Hodder & Stoughton, Knight books, picked up in the 1970s in the UK. Knight picked their pony books very well, as Farrell's The Gift-Wrapped Pony, and Mavis Thorpe-Clark’s The Pony from Tarella, which they also published, are both excellent reads. Alas, no more books from the Guara series, from which The Gift-Wrapped Pony comes, were published in the UK.

The Mitchell family are the heroes of the Guara books, and the first book of the series opens with their pony, devoted escapologist, grey Arum being found in the hay field. She has learned how to open the pony paddock gate, but Mr Mitchell is not impressed with this cleverness, and threatens to sell Arum if she carries on her wicked ways.

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Many thanks to Danyele Foster and Konstanze Allsopp for their help with the the pictures.