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Josephine Mary Wedderburn Pullein-Thompson MBE (3 April 1924 – 19 June 2014), sometimes known as Josephine Mann, was a British writer known for her pony books.She was a leading member of the Pony Club and PEN International.
Pony books form a genre in children's literature of stories featuring children, teenagers, ponies and horses, and the learning of equestrian skills, especially at a pony club or riding school. The genre is generally idealistic, featuring fantasies of perfect friendship with an idealized companion animal.
The 1877 novel Black Beauty, although about a horse and not a pony, is seen as a forerunner of pony book fiction. [1] [2] Pony books themselves began to appear in the late 1920s. [1] In 1928 British lifestyle magazine Country Life published Golden Gorse's The Young Rider which went to a second edition in 1931, and a third in 1935. In the ...
Christine Pullein-Thompson, later Christine Popescu and a nom de plume of Christine Keir (1 October 1925 – 2 December 2005) was a British horsewoman and writer known for her pony books. Her mother, her two sisters and her daughter also wrote pony books; together they created more than 200 books for children – and Christine wrote more than ...
Patricia Leitch (13 July 1933 – 28 July 2015), was a Scottish writer, best known for her series of children's books in the pony story genre about Jinny Manders and her wild, traumatised Arabian horse Shantih, set in the Scottish Highlands.
A sound made by a horse. Generally a loud noise, described as a squeal followed by a nicker. Often is heard when a horse is looking for another horse or a person, [42] sometimes used to call out to unseen animals. [1]: 144 nicker, whicker A soft noise made by horses, the horse makes a vibrating sound with its mouth closed using the vocal cords.
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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).