tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56090019964825220072024-03-05T06:08:12.757-05:00The Pony Book ChroniclesReviews of horsey books for kids. Mostly. Some nonfiction, some adult fiction, all horse-related. Mostly American.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-55516831140601330902020-10-09T23:21:00.000-04:002020-10-09T23:21:24.854-04:00Winter Of The Owl (1980)<p>Well, it's been a while. Four years. I was busy. Still am busy. I let this blog dwindle because I didn't have time for the sort of entries I used to make. Still don't. But - I have time to make some entries. The perfect is the enemy of the good. So here we go.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> <br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrifCAZ68oxYzI5_H7SCgArwAFl4cuf_N8csYXh6EPwyYvV7SvuycBo3bEJbvkT9xJF-POXV4CVk5Lb-3A55QvCqbFYJWcJxUagEzmW31Rv9sXVYdT9XpGGTAqvIhYO2h83j1JLphorE/s2048/DSC02072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1176" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrifCAZ68oxYzI5_H7SCgArwAFl4cuf_N8csYXh6EPwyYvV7SvuycBo3bEJbvkT9xJF-POXV4CVk5Lb-3A55QvCqbFYJWcJxUagEzmW31Rv9sXVYdT9XpGGTAqvIhYO2h83j1JLphorE/s320/DSC02072.JPG" /></a></div><b>Winter of the Owl</b><br />June Andrea Hanson<br />1980, Macmillan<br />Illustrator (cover), Ruth Sanderson <br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>He whinnied softly and stepped forward, so he stood
between us and the mares. In the darkness of the shed, the white-lightning
blaze which shot down his face seemed luminous, radiant. He was alive with magnificent
power, so like the stallion. I stood quite still before him. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Janey’s household is filled with tension; her father,
struggling to cope post-heart attack with his newly purchased ranch, clashes constantly
with her old-school grandfather, whose experience ranching is offset by his own
declining health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a Montana snowscape
at Christmas, the hiring of a Cheyenne hand and his son anger the elderly
grandfather even more – and the decision to sell Janey’s adored colt, Fire Dancer,
turns the already moody teenager into another source of stress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Frankly, I’m surprised anyone is still alive at the end of
this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One recovering heart patient,
two senior citizens who are still trying to do full-time ranch work, a teenaged
girl erupting in rage, a remote ranch…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seems more like a suspense novel than a horse book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Or, rather, a teen coming of age novel about learning to deal with angry adults and cute boys who totally swoop in and steal your horse's affections. </span> <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a sequel to 1979’s <i>Summer of the Stallion</i>
(the stallion mentioned in the quote above).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hanson grew up on a ranch, attended the University of Colorado and ended
up in first the Peace Corps and then New York City.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Other books</b><br /><i>Summer of the Stallion</i> (1979)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-32055854695753256792016-05-23T02:16:00.000-04:002016-05-23T02:16:56.328-04:00Star Rider (1985) or Choose Your Own Adventure goes Pony Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b> Star Rider</b><br />
Carole Carreck, il. Steve Jones (cover) Peter Wilkes (internal)<br />
1985, Puffin Books<br />
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<i>You, the reader, are the heroine of this story. You have ridden horses all your life and have great natural ability as a rider. You have secretarial qualifications, but your one ambition in life is to own a good horse and make a career for yourself riding. </i><br />
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A choose-your-own-adventure style pony book from the UK, this loopy (literally) role-playing game/book kicks off with your purchase of a show pony named Braid. The action quickly expands to include two handsome, mysterious, occasionally smitten men and a lot of ambitious decision-making about the best course of action to bring Braid and you to your full potential.<br />
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I really can't resist a book with a horse on the cover. I remember the days of the CYOA books (the 1980s) and I think I liked the American version better. There's something slightly alarming about having a book assert that I (or, as they put it, YOU) am driving Range Rovers through Wales while arguing about bloodsports and exclaiming "Bother!" when passing a woman on a push-bike. And yet, the format is fun. Something I'd almost forgotten until skimming this one just now is that the adventures can end badly. Braid (what a name!) can become too injured to compete. You can become too injured to compete. And in the startlingly brutal final words of several possible storylines, "Your adventure ends here." <br />
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<b>Notes</b> <br />
This series, "Starlight Adventures," was designed to appeal to girls (the CYOAs were often horror/mystery series, and typically appealed to boys) and appear not to be related to each other. In other words, this was the only horsey one.<br />
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<b>Links </b><br />
<a href="http://ffreviewermalthusd.blogspot.com/2013/08/1-star-rider.html" target="_blank">Review of Star Rider </a><br />
<a href="http://www.gamebooks.org/starlite.htm" target="_blank">Review of Star Rider</a><br />
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<a href="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1383564965l/18404397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1383564965l/18404397.jpg" height="320" width="219" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Winter Horses</b></div>
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Philip Kerr, il. Eva Kolenko (cover)</div>
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2014, Alfred A. Knopf, imprint of Random House</div>
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(paperback is Ember imprint of RH)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Oh, the Przewalski’s
are strong, sir. None stronger. And they’re clever, too. Resourceful. Cunning,
even.”</i></div>
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In late 1941, zookeeper Maxim Borisovich Melknik is the only
worker left at the State Steppe Nature Reserve of the Ukraine, or
Askaniya-Nova. The Germans, busy expanding their eastern front, have arrived in
the form of a group of SS led by Captain Grenzmann. Maxim, who recalls the
German founder of Askaniya-Nova with great fondness and is not the most
enthusiastic of Communists, is prepared to give Grenzmann and his men the
benefit of the doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until they start
eating his animals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The reserve consists of a zoo and a large wildlife preserve;
the crown jewel of this remote Soviet park is the herd of Przewalski
horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grenzmann, a restless German,
begins almost immediately to search for a way to eradicate these “inferior”
horses. He’s largely successful, but a breeding pair (Temukin and Borte) escapes
and the increasingly obsessed Nazi launches a hunt for the dangerously fertile
horses.</div>
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At the same time, a member of another dangerously inferior
race is hiding out at the reserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kalinka, a Jewish girl who’d barely escaped the mass murder of her
family, is making the reserve one more stop in her endless journey of escape: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Three uncles, three
aunts, my brothers, my sisters, my grandparents, my great-grandmother, and all
my cousins. Everyone had to gather in the botanical gardens in our city. Which
is where it happened. I mean, where they and all the others were killed. Not
just my family. But every family. At least, every family that was Jewish.
Fifteen or twenty thousand people. I’m not sure.”</i></div>
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Kalinka is charmed by her encounters with the herds of
Przewalski, and horrified when the Germans machine-gun most of them. But that
horror is only the latest in her histories of grief and death, and she almost
immediately has to worry about surviving a Russian winter. </div>
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Maxim and his dog, a Borzoi/Russian Wolfhound named Taras,
help Kalinka survive a blizzard, but she can’t stay there. Grenzmann’s passion
to kill those last horses leads him straight to Kalinka, who must run again.</div>
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Przewalski horses are, as the book admits, wild. You do not
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insightful and a little more accepting of handling than you’d expect, which the
humans note and chalk up to their extreme need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in the second half of the book, as Kalinka sets out alone into the
snowy landscape with only the horses and Taras for company, the animals become
the drivers of the action and all but speak to one another. Kalinka, dependent
on the horses for warmth at the very least, is briefly the dependent of the
animals. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With jaws bared
viciously, the first wolf – a big male – launched himself like a streak of
snarling gray lightning at the girl, only to be met by a perfectly judged
double kick from Temujin as both the stallion’s rear hooves lashed out in
unison and connected very solidly with the wolf’s body </i></div>
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Despite the hostility of the wolves (historically symbolic
of the Nazis), the worst, most enduring dangers come from humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a time, all the humans they encounter are
brutal monsters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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An interesting book, blending realism and a WWII legend
nicely. </div>
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<b>About the Author</b></div>
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Kerr is best known for a series of spy thrillers, but has also written other children's books under the name P.B. Kerr.</div>
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<b>Links</b></div>
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Kirkus <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/philip-kerr/the-winter-horses/" target="_blank">review</a></div>
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Book optioned for <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/philip-kerrs-winter-horses-be-782844" target="_blank">animated film</a> </div>
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Author <a href="http://www.philipkerr.org/" target="_blank">website</a></div>
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Website for <a href="http://ascania-nova.org/" target="_blank">Askaniya-Nova</a></div>
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<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4157IB8qDGL._SX229_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4157IB8qDGL._SX229_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" height="320" width="195" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robin Kane: The
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Eileen Hill, il. Sylvia Haggander</div>
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1966, A Whitman Book, Western Publishing Co.</div>
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Robin Kane, 13, lives in Pacific Point, California with her
parents, 14-year-o<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">ld brother Kevin and younger sister Amy. </span>Best friend Melinda Hunter’s father Maxfield
is a film and TV producer who’s bringing his latest project <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Changeling</i> to town and casting the Kane
kids and his own stable of palomino horses – including Robin’s beloved Nugget –
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This is the first book of the series, and at best, it’s just
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mid-century nightmares, from Mexican mamacitas to Irishmen lilting charmingly
about leprechauns. I’m going to be lazy here and refer you to another website for
a nice summation of the book. I quit after the third chapter. In my defense, I
was reading it for this blog and Robin’s reaction to hearing her horse had
vanished is to be sad, finish dinner and go to bed for some bad dreams about
her lost horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not very
horse-book-heroine, Robin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her horse,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">More complete review
at <a href="https://mondomolly.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/robin-kane-1-the-mystery-of-the-blue-pelican-by-eileen-hill/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lost Classics of Teen Lit, 1939-1989</i></a></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Series</b></div>
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The Mystery of the Blue Pelican</div>
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The Mystery of the Phantom</div>
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The Mystery of Glengary Castle</div>
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The Candle Shop Mystery </div>
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Mystery in the Clouds</div>
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The Monster of Wolf Point</div>
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Genevieve Torrey Eames, il. Lorence F. Bjorklund</div>
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1957, Julian Messner, Inc.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The noise grew louder
and around the base of the mountain came a small band of horses, manes and
tails flying and a cloud of dust swirling about them, kicked up by their
galloping hoofs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny’s heart raced at
the sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaders started into the
valley, halted and swerved away again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then, above the hoofbeats, came the roar of a motor and a small yellow
plane swung into sight, following the horses and flying so low it seemed almost
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Johnny Shaw is dozing, postponing the end of a camping trip,
when he sees a roundup of wild horses, dominated by an airplane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scene is brutal – the terrified herd runs
down and crushes a foal, and the cowboys frankly tell Johnny that the wild
horses being driven into a truck are destined for a cannery – but Johnny’s
torn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pilot is the father of his two
best friends, Dan and Linda Cameron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vern is newly home from Korea, and trying to use his Air Force skills to
tide over his new ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny
recognizes the family’s genuine need, but when he spots an overlooked band of
wild horses, he heads into the hills to find a way to get them moving before
anyone else spots them.</div>
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latter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny comes to understand where
Vern’s coming from, and how the money from his flying roundups is intended for
good, and somehow the early scene with the agonized foal is overwritten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not very satisfying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b>About the Author</b></div>
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1894-1991</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other books by Eames
(horse)</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pat Rides The Trail</i>
(1946) il. Dan Noonan</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Horse To Remember</i>
(1947) il. Paul Brown</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Good Luck Colt</i>
(1953) il. Paul Brown</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghost Town Cowboy</i>
(1957) il. Paul Brown</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other books by Eames
(dog)</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Handy of the Triple S</i>
(1949) il. Paul Brown</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Short Stories</b></div>
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Jarvis Discovers Gold" appears in the anthology <i>Horses,
Horses, Horses: Palominos And Pintos, Polo Ponies And Plow Horses, Morgans And
Mustangs </i>edited by Phyllis <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Fenner</span></div>
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<i>Someday I’ll Race Him</i> in Young Wings – the Magazine of the
Boys’ and Girls’ Club</div>
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1953, Thomas Crowell (not shown)</div>
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jump him and plots to enter him in a local show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The show, held at a country club over the
Memorial Day weekend, is very obviously over Kathy’s head – just figuring out
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She imagined herself
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stands and the echo of a derisive bugle. Only too clearly, she saw Baldy
plowing through the rails, sending splintered wood flying in all directions.</i></div>
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Brisk pace, nice style and funny little drawings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well worth a read.</div>
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1953 Crowell</div>
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1970 Apollo paperback</div>
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1988 Linnet Books </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Author</b></div>
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Frieda Kenyon Brown (1920-2011)</div>
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Brown was born in Philadelphia to a father named,
wonderfully, Benjamin Franklin II (whose son was named Benjamin Franklin III);
her unusual middle name was her mother’s maiden name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raised on an apple farm, she loved farm
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She attended Bryn Mawr College and
joined the American Red Cross during World War II. She was awarded the Medal of
Freedom for her work in field hospitals in France and Germany with the 3<sup>rd</sup>
Army, and married Lt. William Douglas Brown in 1945.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His military career kept them on the move,
but after he retired, they followed her father to North Carolina, where Brown
finally got a farm of her own in Pisgah Forest. She had 2 children. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As a writer, she mostly collaborated on nonfiction with <span class="c-7">Claude Frazier Albee, as well as writing under the pseudonym F.K.
Franklin. This appears to be her sole horsey book.</span></div>
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<b><span class="c-7">Oddities</span></b></div>
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<span class="c-7">The 2012 film version of the popular 2008 young adult novel The Hunger Games was filmed in the Pisgah National Forest. </span></div>
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<a href="http://booksandmud.blogspot.com/2014/04/pbotd-3rd-april-fk-brown-last-hurdle.html" target="_blank">A review at Books and Mud</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/usa2/brown.html" target="_blank">About the author at Jane Badger Books</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110709/ARTICLES/110709809" target="_blank">Obituary in Blue Ridge Now</a></div>
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<a href="http://hosting-9505.tributes.com/obituary/show/Frieda-Kenyon-Brown-91919919" target="_blank">Online Obituary</a></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-55724468452656304082015-08-25T23:13:00.003-04:002015-08-25T23:13:42.596-04:00RIP Patricia Leitch<br />
<a href="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1222733314l/794022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1222733314l/794022.jpg" height="320" width="183" /></a>Having wandered over to the <a href="http://booksandmud.blogspot.com/2015/08/patricia-leitch-1933-2015.html" target="_blank">Books, Mud and Compost</a> blog, I discovered the prolific pony book author Patricia Leitch died on July 28. <br />
<br />
<br />
I read <i>For Love of a Horse</i> for the first time while hiding behind
an armchair during a violent thunderstorm with my Beardie wrapped
around my legs. It is one of those vivid, perfect memories from childhood that
feels as if I could wake up there again, if I tried hard enough. The storm-charged air, the cave-like security behind the chair, the shaggy dog's comforting weight, and the transporting book. I still have that book. <br />
<br />
I've read only a few of Leitch's many books, but they made a deep impression. Her characters, human and equine, were outstanding. Jinny - humorless, driven, passionate Jinny, tearing her heart out over the abused mare she names Shantih at the grim suggestion of her beloved, slightly frightening Ken. The placidly stubborn Highlands. The wild mare. The storm-ravaged pottery, the haunting wall mural, the dream-like state in which she paints that contest entry and then wanders downstairs for a bit of a snack. The dog Kelly. The wet ride across confusing moors to track down the library van. <br />
<br />
Leitch had her flaws - if she didn't particularly appreciate a personality, she didn't much bother with the character. Jinny's sister and mother were virtually flat - but her writing had great scope and style. It's rare enough to get that sort of enormous energy poured into a child's book, let alone a child's book centered on horses. Leitch was a classic.<br />
<br />
<b>Obits</b><br />
<b></b><br />
<b><a href="http://nzponywriter.com/2015/08/04/patricia-leitch-1933-2015/" target="_blank">NZ Ponywriter</a> </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/celebrated-writer-pat-leitch-leaves-6198831" target="_blank">Daily Record</a> </b><br />
<br />
<b>Links</b> <br />
<b><a href="http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/ponybooksfile2/leitchhome.html" target="_blank">Jane Badger Books</a> </b><br />
<b><a href="http://patricialeitch.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ponymadbooklovers</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Leitch" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jinny-at-Finmory-books/335556434174" target="_blank">Jinny at Finmory Facebook</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://catnipbooks.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-commissionedjinny-at-finmory.html" target="_blank">Catnip Books</a></b> Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-5657740743707098762015-07-20T01:25:00.000-04:002015-07-20T01:35:04.887-04:00Falling For Eli (2012)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uCJLdOOjL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uCJLdOOjL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" height="320" width="211" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Falling For Eli: How
I Lost Heart, Then Gained Hope Through The Love Of A Singular Horse</b></div>
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Nancy Shulins</div>
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2012, Da Capo Press</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This isn’t the party I
pictured all the years I secretly dreamed of this day, little fantasies that
helped me endure every painful procedure that got me to where I am now.
Someday, I’d tell myself, while being biopsied, inseminated, or injected with dye,
this part will be over, and my friends and I will celebrate over mini-cupcakes
in a room filled with spray roses and alphabet blocks… Like the pictures that
change when you tilt the card they’ve been printed on, I have only to shift my
viewing angle ever so slightly for the diaper paul to morph into a feed bucket,
the changing pad into a saddle pad. And with that, my baby shower reverts to a “bridle”
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After years spent trying to overcome infertility, Nancy
Shulins and her husband are done with the quest for a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the journalist tries to understand what
comes next, a friend with a horse brings back memories of childhood riding
lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before she knows it, she’s in
thrall to a dressage trainer. And the
new interest is a lifesaver when her sister, whose children Shulins adores,
moves far away. </div>
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The friend’s horse
dies, cruelly, of laminitis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Shulins, grieving, is </span>introduced to a Thoroughbred for sale, and finds herself a horse owner.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That owning a horse in
suburban Connecticut on the eve of the new millennium is a privilege seems
obvious enough on a crisp autumn morning or a balmy spring afternoon; less so
on a frigid February morning when drinking water freezes in buckets and sheets
of ice cover the ground. </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I can’t wait.</i> </div>
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Her new horse, Eli, enchants her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less enchanting are her relationships with a
series of instructors, most of them abusive and nasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shulins seems extremely tolerant of hard-ass
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instructor to get her in better shape for riding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between this screaming marine and her two
dressage instructors, she takes a lot of abuse in pursuit of riding well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s a successful journalist, and it’s
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trainers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But of course, the book is about the horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she adores Eli, whose feet betray him,
and whose God-given talent as a horse to find new and exciting ways to hurt
himself is always willing to take up the slack when the hooves have been
temporarily fixed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the years, she
nurses him back to health repeatedly, at different barns and with different instructors,
riding and tending barn in the depths of winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when EPM strikes him, she is crushed</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I forgot to rehearse
losing my horse. I’d taken for granted that he’d be here for me, mitigating my
childlessness and equalizing my grief; leading me out of my dark, quiet house
and into the bright light of day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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And aggressively effective, ruthlessly direct. She tracks
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in fact, cure Eli. </div>
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A wonderful, funny book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">She nails a host of horsey topics, including: </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Think of this place
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and</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the horrors of animal
husbandry:</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I try hiding his pills
in sweet feed… I hollow out a Granny Smith apple and stuff it with pills…I try
hiding pills in doughnuts. Oatmeal cookies. Apple Jacks. Straight molasses.
Maple syrup. Peppermints. Mashed bananas. Finally, in desperation I buy a
coffee grinder and pulverize the pills into a powder. I then stir it into
applesauce and plunge the whole mucky mess down his thrown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homemade applesauce at first, then
store-bought when he makes it clear that as far as his taste buds are
concerned, my grandmother’s recipe has nothing on Mott’s.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the inevitability of
injury</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The first buck comes
out of nowhere, pitching me forward onto his neck; the second – a real beauty,
all four feet off the ground – launches me into the air. I’m just thinking how
odd it feels to be suddenly soaring through nothingness like an ejected fighter
pilot when I hit the dirt hard on my left side.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Horses in general</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… extreme cold is what
separates the horse owner from the horse lover. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Etc.</b></div>
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yearning to leave, then went away to college: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At Northwestern
University in Boston everyone seemed to have come from New Jersey, a foreign land
I’d grown up making fun of. From the Brahmins of Bergen County to the Panchamas
of Patterson, theirs was a caste system far more refined than any I’d known in
Cow Hampshire. </i></div>
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And I adored her echo of O. Henry, whose short stories
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…. Hoboken, that
perennial punch line on the Hudson…</i></div>
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<b>Websites</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.fallingforeli.com/" target="_blank">Falling For Eli</a> </div>
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This is a <b> </b>rather long review of a book which is not old, or fiction or children's. It's a nonfiction book from 2013 about the origins of a racehorse rescue, CANTER, and the tragedy that led to its founding. The author's frankness about the guilt, lingering and permanent, over the choices she made with her horses and her family, makes for powerful reading. </div>
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<b> Saving Baby: How One Woman’s Love For A Racehorse Led To Her
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Jo Anne Normile and Lawrence Lindner</div>
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2013, St. Martin’s Press</div>
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In 1973, a young Jo Anne Normile fell in love with a
racehorse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secretariat did that to
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His stretch run in the Belmont Stakes
still makes your breath catch. Roughly 20 years later, the adult Normile leases
a pregnant Thoroughbred broodmare, exchanging the mare’s care during foaling
for the right to the next breeding, which she plans to be to a Secretariat son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t expect to fall in love with the
foal, who is technically supposed to be delivered back to the mare’s owner once
weaned. Then the foal is born.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At the sound of the
whicker, the baby lifted its head, its ears flopped to the side. It then let
out a whiny, although it was more like the honk of a Canadian goose, and that,
combined with our relief, I think, made all of us laugh hard.</i></div>
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Normile delights in the foal, Baby, doing all the ground
work that will make him calm, confident, easy to handle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… I was determined
that Baby was going to grow to adulthood strong not just in body but also in mind
so that nothing would ever hurt him.</i></div>
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Inevitably, she and her husband decide to buy the colt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The owner agrees, but on condition they race
him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nervous but willing, they embark on
a career as racehorse owners. First Baby and then Scarlett (their Secretariat
filly, born of the second breeding), head off to trainers.</div>
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Normile finds the racing world fascinating, and quickly
becomes very involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She makes
mistakes with trainers, picks up the lingo, and learns more than she’d like
about abusive horsemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad things
happen, but never quite bad enough to discourage her completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some of the best passages, she and
co-author Lindner show how the creeping sense of something wrong begins to live
in the back of her mind. She rationalizes the injuries and questionable
training practices, knowing that all competitive athletics requires risk of
pain and harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worries about her
horses, changing barns and trainers repeatedly until they get a trainer she
trusts and a barn setup more natural than the average. She learns of ‘breakdowns’
and why a big truck regularly rumbles by on its way to the empty fields behind
the track – it’s the company that picks up dead horses to take to the renderer.
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The gruesome knowledge bothers her, but she feels safe in
that Baby and Scarlett are so lovingly tended and sound; the breakdowns are,
she thinks, mostly due to badly conditioned or lame horses being run with
injuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And their first, hard-won, win
is intoxicating: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If I was hooked
before, even with the sinister goings-on that I had seen at the track, I was
addicted now… all the glamour of racing, of the Sport of Kings – it was
something I was now truly part of.</i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And then it all changes. </span>Baby breaks down in a race, a single step that torques his
leg, shatters his tibia, destroys any hope of saving him. Normile ends up in
those empty fields with her horse, crying and telling him she’s sorry, so
sorry, that she failed him, and then has to step back for the vet to euthanize
him.</div>
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Normile sets out to get the track, whose surface was being
decried as dangerous before that fatal race, redone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the process, she discovers the even more gruesome
fate of racehorses who either break down without dying outright, or simply aren’t
working out at racing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re sold for
meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worse than that, the processing of
horses for meat is brutal – they’re crammed into trucks without food, water
or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- when they’re injured – painkillers.
The trucks are often designed for much shorter cattle, so the horses are
cramped and bent over for the long ride to the slaughterhouse. The slaughter
method is inexact, a bolt to the brain that often misses the agitated horse,
and has to be repeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horrified at
this new face of racing, so far removed from the glory of Secretariat’s career
or the joy of watching Baby run, Normile launches a rescue for racehorses.</div>
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It’s useful at this point to remind yourself this was the
1990s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nascent internet was the
exclusive property of a few tech geeks and the military. The racing industry’s
solution to slow or lame racehorses was still its dirty little secret, and secrets
were much easier to keep. And animal rescue had not yet exploded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Normile's efforts are all the more impressive. </span></div>
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Normile’s rescue is eventually name Communication Alliance
to Network Ex-Racehorses – CANTER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
begins in Normile’s home state of Michigan, but spins off regional
organizations all over the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normile eventually steps away from CANTER to focus on her
family, as her husband has severe health issues. She is now involved with
another charity, Saving Baby Equine Chariy, whose mission is: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dedicated to
protecting horses, ponies, mules, and donkeys from slaughter, abuse and
neglect; promoting change through public awareness and education; rescuing
these animals in emergency situations; and providing financial assistance to
approved 501 (c) (3) organizations that rescue them from slaughter, abuse or
neglect in order to help as many as possible.</i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i>Brief review</i> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">A very polished, professional, well-executed book which hits very hard in the repeated passages about Normile's feelings of having failed her horses and how her attempts to make things right never quite do. </span></div>
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<i>Interesting note: </i></div>
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The book was originally self-published, got good reviews, and was picked up by St. Martin's and re-issued in hardcover. (Original paperback cover below)</div>
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<i>Personal note: </i></div>
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Around
2008, I happily followed two CANTER Mid-Atlantic bloggers who were retraining
racehorses for new homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
lovely blogs.</div>
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<a href="http://www.canterusa.org/" target="_blank">CANTER USA</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.savingbaby.org/jo-anne-normile.html" target="_blank">Saving Baby Equine Charity</a></div>
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<a href="https://dixierumble.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">CANTER Mid-Atlantic Dixie Rumble</a></div>
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<a href="https://calabriarose.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">CANTER Mid-Atlantic Calabria Rose</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jo-anne-normile/saving-baby/" target="_blank">Kirkus review</a></div>
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-62664339453665706082015-04-25T01:33:00.002-04:002015-04-25T01:33:52.056-04:00Riding The Wind (1995)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Riding The Wind</b></div>
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1995, Henry Holt and Company </div>
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Thirteen-year-old Angie has been riding for three years at
Smitty’s Good Luck Ranch, and she adores the grey Arabian mare Ardalila II,
aka, Lila.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the story begins, she’s
estatic; an aunt has died and left her $2500, which is almost enough to buy
Lila.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she can earn the rest and
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Standing in the way, apart from finances and dubious daddy, is
Sage Summers, the perennially bad-tempered daughter of Smitty’s farrier. She’s
also got her eye on Lila, who she thinks is the reason she lost a recent
jumping contest to Angie. The rivalry between the girls reaches a head when
Sage takes Lila out in a sleet storm and the mare injures a leg.</div>
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The tension over Lila resolve abruptly as Sage is revealed
to have Very Sad Story and is simultaneously neatly removed from Angie’s hair
by virtue of being distracted by an abused project mare, Starry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angie can then devote herself to obsessing
over Lila, with intervals of neophyte flirtation with available and lovestruck
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Horatio? </div>
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Angie’s mother runs out of computer discs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, the 1990s.</div>
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Horatio uses his Siberian Husky (named Silver Chief after the hero of an old dog book) with a dogsled</div>
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<b>Other Books - fiction</b></div>
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<i>Life's A Funny Proposition, Horatio</i> (1992) - a prequel of sorts, focusing on Horatio and non-horsey.<i><i> </i></i></div>
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<i><i>Why Does the Coquí Sing?</i></i> (2004)<i> </i></div>
<i>Her Mother's Secret (2012)</i><br />
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<i>My Parrot Eats Baked Beans: Kids Talk about Their Pets (</i>1987)</div>
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<i>James Madison: Fourth President of the United States</i> (1988)<br />
<i>Herbert C. Hoover: Thirty-first President of the United States</i> (1990)<br />
<i>With One Bold Act: The Story of Jane Addams</i> (1999)<br />
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Simon & Schuster's Aladdin is reissuing five of Marguerite
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<br />It's funny about Snowman. He's the horse who in 1956 went from having one hoof in a pet food can to being an elite show jumper, and very likely the only show jumper to ever make any impression on an American audience. His rags-to-riches story seems to have enabled him to make a slight dent in the extremely sturdy American indifference to horse shows. Harness races were popular when everyone drove horses instead of cars. Thoroughbred racing was popular when we still associated wealth with beauty and glamor. Rodeos will always be popular because we are, at heart, all shit-kickers. But horse shows? Tweens riding Daddy's paycheck around a ring while Mommies Who Lunch applaud? You must be joking. <br />
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Horse shows, in the hunter/jumper fashion, are elitist. It's an uncomfortable fit with the American sense of propriety, where every Trump pretends to be a self-made man. Of course, racing is even more elitist, but who can even bother being envious of people who own Bluegrass real estate? It's like envying the stars. Our real annoyance is with people whose homes block our view of the stars. And so we ignore show jumping. Completely.<br />
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Except for Snowman. He had the charm of the underdog, plus the appeal of being an Ordinary Joe. The photos of him being used as a giant pet by owner Harry de Leyer's children are more numerous than images of him competing at major horse shows. <br />
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<i>The Story of Snowman, the Cinderella Horse</i> by Tony Palazzo (1962)<br />
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<i>Snowman</i> by Rutherford Montgomery (1967)<br />
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<i>The Eight-Dollar Champion</i> by Elizabeth Letts (2010)<br />
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<a href="http://www.harryandsnowman.com/trailer" target="_blank">Harry & Snowman trailer</a><b> </b><br />
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that has the cutest Los fashioned illustrations of ponies. Children come
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Anyone have any ideas?<i> </i>I was thinking of <i>Pony Girl</i> by Janet Randall, because of the pony ride part and because one pony was named Star.<i> </i>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-36913353022996394692013-10-10T05:25:00.001-04:002013-10-10T05:25:09.308-04:00Catch Rider (2013) <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Catch Rider</b></div>
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Jennifer H. Lyne</div>
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2013, Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Submarine stood in my
way, chewing on a flake of fescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was an old skewbald pinto, huge feet and knees, a little swaybacked, large head
and a big belly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had strong hooves
and a powerful build.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy bought him
for himself on a lark when they were doing work for a fellow in Pig Run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncle Wayne said Sub was the soundest horse
he’d ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although most horss
threw a shoe at about six weeks, Sub kept his shoes on so long, the blacksmith
had to pry them off at twelve weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
he just stood there chomping on the hay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was past his prime and was a sad sight, with his long whiskers and
manure stains on his white spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
wasn’t doing nothing but taking up space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was always in the way, and it made me angry.</i></div>
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14-year-old Sidney “Sid” Criser is angry a lot, for various
reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her beloved father, Jimmy, died
four years ago and her mother, Melinda, has managed to fall into a passive
relationship with a violent man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sid’s
love for horses and ambitions for riding gets some outlet working with her
uncle Wayne, a drunk horse dealer, but going to work with him at Oak Hill, a
fancy show barn, shows her just how far she is from the horsey pinnacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And that’s where I’ll stop, because part of the charm of
this book lies in how it keeps twisting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heroine’s path
does take her down the unusual horsey book fortunate accidents, complete with
rides on spectacular horses and getting vastly unlikely opportunities to do
wonderful things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is, in fact, the
most recent update of the classic modern horse-loving girl story – hardworking
female child overcomes a disadvantaged background to achieve horsey success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are all set in what has to be one of
the most esoteric, elite variations of equine competition, aka,
hunter/jumper/Big Equitation – horse show genres that exist largely in America
and tend to revolve around 14-year-old girls with well-heeled parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barbara Morgenroth did it with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last Junior Year</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ride A Proud Horse</i>, Jean Slaughter Doty
with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Monday Horses</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crumb</i>. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good </b></div>
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An interesting plot, a realistic if often aggravating hero,
and crisp action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bad </b></div>
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Sid, while realistic in behavior for a teen, is way too
poised verbally and her aggressiveness is unrealistic – one moment she’s
fearlessly picking fights with threatening older boys, and the next she’s
cowering because someone threatened her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Personal reaction</b></div>
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I dislike redneck stories with sullen, two-fisted heroines
that ain’t afeered of no damn boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
met hard knock girls with black eyes and ready snarls, whose fists are just
a’coverin’ a hurtin’ heart, and most of the time it’s like walking into a buzz
saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, there’s probably a little
mild jealousy that as a New Jersey resident, I can never claim to be country
strong because people would just laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Probably people in North Dakota feel the same way about urban stories
(or, in fact, suburban stories, given that state’s cow/human ratio) about
ambitious young shoe-buying chicks who have zany adventures in coffee shops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Returning to the point – given my high
resistance to rural tough chick heroines, the fact I finished the book and have
a mildly positive opinion is an indication that it’s a decent book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Details</b></div>
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Something worth mentioning is that a catch rider is someone
who “catches” rides at a horse show – ie, is a good enough rider, with a good
enough reputation, that people will want them to ride their horse in a
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, a rider without a
horse, for the most part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This doesn’t
exactly describe our heroine, who has access to her uncle’s horses and horses
owned by a variety of his friends (also, it should be added, low-rent dealers
so their horses aren’t $50k warmbloods), but in essence, she’s a rider without
a horse, and while the book is intensely horsey and the heroine is a typical
fixated-on-horses type, there are a variety of horses who take center stage,
then suddenly depart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Appropriate, given
the title and Sid’s ambition, but still rather jarring.</div>
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The action appears to take place during the 1980s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s never explicitly stated, but two things
– Sidney meets Idle Dice, a famous show jumper who retired in the 1980s, and
the Maclay Finals occur in New York City, which hasn’t happened since 1989 –
make me think it’s a period piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
things like cell phones, texting, etc., aren’t mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things that are mentioned – Sid lives in
rural south-west Virginia, near the city of Covington, and has an unfortunate
habit of being overly hillbilly girl in speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>OK, a bit bitchy, but I truly hate dialect. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Background</b></div>
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The Maclay Finals, highlight of the National Horse Show, were
named for Alfred B. Maclay, second president of the Association of American
Horse Shows (which would become the United States Equestrian Federation or
USEF).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His term was 1925-1936.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you needed any further proof of the money
that horse shows can contain, his predecessor was a Vanderbilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Maclay family’s wealth was built on ice,
which sounds funny unless you’ve just gone through a massive heat wave and then
it sounds completely sensible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
brief flirtation with the family business, Alfred shrugged it off and settled
down to what was undoubtedly a deeply satisfying life managing his personal
wealth and being influential in various hobbies including harness horses, horse
shows and dog shows (he was an AKC judge), glass art and gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a Millbrook, NY house called Killean
Farm, and a Florida home that his widow turned into a public garden.</div>
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And now tearing my attention away from the American rich -
sorry, so much of horses seems to end up with the 1% - Maclay classes are horse
show hunter classes for junior (youth) riders; to reach the finals, you need to
accumulate points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The finals, along
with the National Horse Show, were originally held at Madison Square Garden in
New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The National moved the
the Meadowlands in NJ in 1989, to Wellington, Florida in 1992, and to Syracuase
(as part of another horse show) in 2008, and finally to the Kentucky Horse Park
in 2011. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Links</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.jenniferhlyne.com/" target="_blank">Author’s website</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.rushshows.com/newsletters/april10.html" target="_blank">Rush Horse Show Management page about the Maclay</a></div>
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<a href="http://bigoldhouses.blogspot.com/2010/10/fine-colonial-house.html" target="_blank">Maclay’s Killean Farm</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.covington.va.us/" target="_blank">Covington, Virginia</a></div>
<a href="http://www.covington.va.us/" target="_blank">http://www.covington.va.us/</a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reviews</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jennifer-h-lyne/catch-rider/" target="_blank">Kirkus </a></div>
<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jennifer-h-lyne/catch-rider/" target="_blank"></a><div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://www.iswimforoceans.com/2013/06/catch-rider-by-jennifer-h-lyne-review.html" target="_blank">I Swim For Oceans blog</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.greatbooksforhorselovers.com/2013/07/freedom-and-horses-catch-rider-by.html" target="_blank">Great Books for Horse Lovers</a> </div>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-78798347439275166372013-09-20T22:53:00.003-04:002013-09-20T22:53:51.919-04:00Heather Takes The Reins (1996)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Heather Takes The Reins</b><br />
Sheri Cooper Sinykin<br />
Illustrators: Richard Lauter (cover); Ed Tadiello (illustrations); Rich Grote (spot illustrations) <br />
1996, Scholastic, Inc.<br />
Series: Magic Attic Club<br />
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A series about four best friends - Heather, Alison, Keisha, and Megan - who find a golden key that unlocks a neighbor's attic and allows them access to a magic trunk. The clothes they find in the trunk transport them - separately and together - to other places, and adventures.<br />
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Heather's confidence is shot after a disastrous first try at Academic Bowl. Dispirited, she heads to the attic for an adventure to boost her mood. She chooses a riding outfit and finds herself in a stable, with a sad bay horse named Adagio who isn't good at jumping. Happily, he is good at dressage. <br />
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The central conceit of the attic adventures is that the girls get to experience their magical visits to other lives with all the necessary specialized knowledge. So Heather knows how to ride and in one day goes from her first ride to winning a kur - a musical freestyle in dressage. With only a background watching National Velvet to draw on. Which is why magical adventures rock.<br />
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This is a short book, heavily illustrated and with writing that at best shows promise - but generally isn't trying too hard. Maybe understandably, as this is part of a gimmicky series, but it's disappointing to have a line like:<br />
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<i>At last, as if he were doing her a great favor, he accepted the treat and turned his head away. His teeth crunched noisily as he watched Heather from the corner of his eye.</i><br />
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It starts well, with a wry note that feels true, but falls apart as the crunching goes astray - the treat, surely, is doing the crunching, not the teeth - and the oddness of a horse (with virtually 360 vision) looking out the corner of its eye.<br />
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<b>Notes</b><br />
The books seem to have been accompanied by a set of dolls - the large sort, like the American Girl dolls - and I'm not sure which came first. It's likely the books were marketing tie-ins with the dolls.<br />
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<b>Links</b><br />
<a href="http://www.sherisinykin.com/magic_attic.htm" target="_blank">Sinykin's Magic Attic Club books</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/magic-attic-club/" target="_blank">Fantastic Fiction list of the series</a> <br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-39213175127759807522013-08-20T22:47:00.000-04:002013-08-20T22:47:17.377-04:00The Golden Pasture (1986)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Golden Pasture </div>
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Joyce Carol Thomas, il.??? </div>
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1986, Scholastic POINT</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I still say that
Indian woman would still be here if you knew how to cooperate sometimes and
learned how to show a little affection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Black folks and Cherokees have been marrying and getting along for as
long as I can remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s your
problem?”</i></div>
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The uneasy relationship between Gray Jefferson and his grown
son, Samuel, is laid out in that comment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Samuel has just come to Gray’s Oklahoma <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ranch, Golden Pasture with his newborn son,
Carlton Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the first, startling
chapters, Samuel had stolen the infant from his Cherokee mother, Rose Branch,
after she gives birth in the winter woods, and Gray clearly suspects that his
son’s to blame for whatever separated mother and child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carlton will never see his mother again, but
he forms a strong bond with his grandfather almost from the moment he’s placed
in his arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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12 years later, Carlton Lee is spending another summer at
Golden Pasture, enjoying the company of his easygoing, story-telling
grandfather and riding horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
unsatisfactory spots are visits by his brooding father, his nagging desire to
ride in the Boley Rodeo, and his curiosity over one remote pasture he’s
forbidden to enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When an accident
forces Carl Lee to enter this area, he finds a beautiful Appaloosa and,
indirectly, a clue to his father’s past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As he works to restore Cloudy to health, his grandfather tells him the
story of Samuel and his wild horse, and their fate.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Once, your daddy
loved a horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should’ve let him keep
the horse after we caught him, but I wanted to show him off in that darn
rodeo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a king, that horse.”</i></div>
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Carl Lee understands the story – of Thunderfoot the wild
horse, of Samuel the wild teenager who responded to the wild stallion, and of
Hellhound, the brutal bronc rider who couldn’t resist the challenge of
Thunderfoot’s reputation for putting cowboys on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he doesn’t understand the last piece
until history repeats itself at the Boley Rodeo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A father-son story centered on a horse, with a writing style
that reads like a storyteller’s voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The author wrote several books set near Ponca City, where she grew up,
and some feature Carl Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Series</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marked By Fire</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bright Shadow</i></div>
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<a href="http://www.poncacityok.gov/" target="_blank">Ponca City</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.joycecarolthomas.com/" target="_blank">Author’s Website</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saddle Patrol </b></div>
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Carl Henry Rathjen, il. Cliff Schule</div>
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1970, Western Publishing (A Whitman Book)</div>
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13-year-old Mike Flynn is on a long visit with his cousin,
Terry Stevens, who lives in a unique horse-friendly development in
Wisconsin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On his first night, he goes
to check on his horse, Duke, and stumbles across a mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he and Terry investigate, they uncover a
larger can of worms involving an unfriendly neighbor, mysterious tensions
between horse-owners and farmers, and the troubling worry that Terry’s father,
the local police chief, could lose his job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Mike, a preternaturally level-headed kid, bounces between investigating the heck out of the mystery and soberly assuring Terry's policeman father that he'll leave the investigating to the proper authorities. </span>On one of the "No sir, I will leave policing the the adults" days, he helps his cousin deliver newspapers - on horseback! - and enters into a simmering feud with older newsboy Rod Baxter - which leads to a vital clue! And back we go to investigation. Assisting in the plot is the town police dog, recovering at the Stevens household from an injury. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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An underwritten, plot-heavy mystery with flat characters and
drawn-out action scenes. And another of the awkward Whitman Books, with their horrible illustrations and fragile, yellowing pages and binding. </div>
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<b>Carl Henry Rathjen</b><br />
Rathjen was one of several writers who produced a volume in the Trixie Belden
series. He also wrote two horse <a href="http://americanshortstories.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">stories
</span></a>which appeared in <i>The Boys’ Life Book Of Horse Stories</i> (1963), “The
Curb Bit” and “Sacrifice Spurs.” He also had a horse story in <i>The American Girl
Book of Sports Stories</i> (1965), “Trophy For Sheri.” <br />
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<b>Cliff Schule</b><br />
Illustrated a number of Whitman books, including the horse anthology <i>Golden
Prize.</i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Odd
Facts/Possibilities</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Claybank<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- </b></div>
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This was an unfamiliar term to me, so I googled around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the usage in the book, it clearly means
Duke is a shade of chestnut, but I was interested in how it was used as a
stand-alone adjective:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mike touched Duke with
his heels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The claybank surged in
outflanking pursuit.</i></div>
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It turns out claybank is a description of a red dun – a
dilute chestnut the color of a clay bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like many of the color obsessions, it seems to be heavily associated
with the West and classically Western horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The other main horse in the story, Terry’s horse Wanderer, is a black
blanket Appaloosa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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From Wikipedia: </div>
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“<b>Red dun</b>, also called <b>claybank</b> or <b>fox dun</b>,
horses do not have black points, as there is no black on the horse to be
affected. Instead, the points and primitive markings are a darker shade of red
than the coat. Genetically, the horse has an underlying chesnut coat color,
acted upon by the dun gene.”</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dun">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dun</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></div>
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Horse Colors website</div>
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<a href="http://www.horsecolor.com/dilutions/dun/">http://www.horsecolor.com/dilutions/dun/</a></div>
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Mustangs4US</div>
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<a href="http://www.mustangs4us.com/Horse%20Colors/dun.htm">http://www.mustangs4us.com/Horse%20Colors/dun.htm</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Comanche</b></div>
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The lone survivor of Custer’s command at Little Big Horn was
a gelding named Comanche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The horse,
badly wounded, survived and became an emblem of the battle to the Army, which
retired him with orders he never be ridden again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The argument over Comanche’s color
illustrates the flexibility of color terminology, particularly before the
genetics were understood*.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually
called a bay, Comanche is also sometimes described as a claybank; while current
usage reserves the term for a dun without black, it seems that it was once used
as a general way to describe any unusually light brown horse.</div>
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Kansas University’s Comanche Exhibit</div>
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<a href="http://www.custermuseum.org/Comanche.htm">http://www.custermuseum.org/Comanche.htm</a></div>
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*to be clear, color genetics – dilutes, champagnes, etc. -
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lincoln</b></div>
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And, to round it out, and because the Lincoln assassination
adds interest to any topic, an old folk song “Booth Killed Lincoln” calls
Booth’s getaway horse a claybank: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">J. Wilkes Booth, in his last play,
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937427776827933594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609001996482522007.post-340668068448448552013-08-03T23:32:00.000-04:002013-08-03T23:32:40.695-04:00Odds and EndsVarious items while I finish up some reviews.<br />
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<b>Shark Week!!!!!!!!!!!!</b><br />
Tomorrow, The Discovery Channel's shameless annual sharkfest kicks off. This does not constitute a significant cross-over with horse books, as horses generally stay on land. However...<br />
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... didn't you just know the exception to the shark/horse rule would be Walter Farley? Sharks menace Tena in <i><a href="http://ponybookchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/04/horse-that-swam-away-1965.html" target="_blank">The Horse That Swam Away</a> </i>and nearly eat Alec (once again shipwrecked) in <i>The Black Stallion and Flame</i>. In the latter book, the Black is also attacked by a vampire bat, pictured above on the 1970's paperback cover looking as big as a turkey vulture. <br />
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<b>Contest?</b><br />
Anyone want a contest where you can win vintage (cough) horse books? I have some rattling around that I keep meaning to do a contest for, but I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested. I mean, these are books you can get at Amazon for a penny. On the plus side, they'd be free and the only requirement to enter would be a comment on future reviews. <br />
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<b>Updates</b><br />
Also, I once reviewed a picture book, <a href="http://ponybookchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/05/happy-mothers-day.html" target="_blank"><i>Horses</i></a> by Blanche Chenery Perrin. Recently, I came across a <a href="http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2012/10/hamilton-greene-golden-horses.html" target="_blank">comics blog</a> which shows the entire (well, it was a Little Golden Book) book. Well worth a look - I really like Hamilton Greene's illustrations.<br />
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And my sole horsey purchase at a used booksale today. Cute - Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations are always eye-catching.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Wilful Princess
And The Piebald Prince</b></div>
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Robin Hobb, il. Jon Foster</div>
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2013, Subterranean Press</div>
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For something a little different. This book stands alone quite nicely, but also
functions as a prequel of sorts to the author’s popular fantasy series, much of it centering on a
dragon-plagued land called the Six Duchies, and the royal Farseer family that rules it when they're not busy killing each other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I’ve read most of the books – there are
currently 13 – and generally liked them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’re decent fantasy novels based on characters and convincingly portray a complicated fantasy world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>This novella is much shorter and concentrated than the sprawling enormity of the rest of the series, but has many of the same elements – strong and often unlikeable women,
mysterious men, royal squabbles, high fantasy tone and a tendency toward
unexpected bloodbaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The backstory for this installment is that in the main
series, there’s a violent dislike for one branch of magic ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Wit is the ability to bond and
communicate with animals in a mystic way; Witted folk can literally speak with
animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this book begins, years
before the later books, being Witted is considered acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the next book (<i>Assasin’s Apprentice</i>) in
the series opens, the Wit is regarded as corrupt and evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this book, it’s explained how that
prejudice came to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It starts with a
Queen-In-Waiting named Caution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who is,
to put it mildly, quite unlike her name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At 20, she’s refused to marry, refused to learn anything about ruling, and generally is vexing her indulgent parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the horse fair opens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Now among his ware
this odd trader had a spotted horse – not dappled nor speckled, mind you, but
blotted in great ugly spots, like a fruit that has taken blight, or a
poorly-dyed blanket, or a milk cow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Black-and-white he was, with a rolling blue eye on one side of his head
and a dark staring one on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big
was this beast, and a stud, unruly of temper, screaming out his challenges to
any stallion that came near and snuffing and stamping after every passing mare.</i></div>
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Caution sees the horse, and the Witted slave named Lostler
who is the only one who can control him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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can tell where this is going. But Caution's predictable disaster is not where the story ends. </div>
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The story is narrated by Felicity, the plain daughter of an
ambitious wet nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maneuvered into
place as the playmate and personal maid of Caution, she has grown to love
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has little choice; taken from
her family at a young age and instructed harshly by her mother on how to please
a fickle princess, Felicity has virtually no one but Caution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The princess, all unknowing, is Felicity’s
family, friends and lover, all in one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their betrayals of each other will be impressive, especially given that
Caution really doesn’t recognize that she is betraying her – for how can a princess
betray a servant?</div>
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Honestly, not all that horsey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is interesting, though, how Hobb uses the
horse to rachet up the sexual tension between the
heir and the groom; as the maid watches her mistress flirt with ruin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robin Hobb’s Six
Duchies/The Elderlings novels</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assassin’s Apprentice</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Royal Assassin</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assassin’s Quest</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ship of Magic</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mad Ship</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ship of Destiny</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fool’s Errand</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golden Fool</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fool’s Fate</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragon Keeper</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragon Haven</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City of Dragons</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood of Dragons</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Author</b></div>
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Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (1952 - )</div>
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aka Megan Lindholm</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Links</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.meganlindholm.com/" target="_blank">Megan Lindholm website</a></div>
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<a href="http://robinhobb.com/" target="_blank">Robin Hobb website</a></div>
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<a href="http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_willful_princess_and_the_piebald_prince" target="_blank">Subterranean Press</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/02/the-willful-princess-and-the-piebald-prince-excerpt" target="_blank">Tor Books - excerpt </a><br />
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This is the scene in February, mere moments before I took a spectacular fall. All that snow cunningly conceals a puddle which I KNEW was there, as it's there 9 months of the year, but somehow forgot just long enough to step onto its slickly iced surface and go flying. My experience was caught on video, as I had the camera turned to movie at the time, but I think I'll just not share that. It's a blur as the camera makes a lovely arc through the air, and then, as it lands a short distance from my suddenly prone body, a lot of groaning, some slightly dramatic clutching of the ground, and a final, belated shot of the dog making a sortie back to see what was taking me so long. <br />
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Which is why I am rather impatient for spring. I love cold weather, but when snow conspires with ice to maim, you really don't need a horse to hurt yourself. It's funny; I have the typical fear issues with riding that most sane adults have, but my worst falls have been sans horse. Which is something I reflected on after another ice slide a few years ago. As I lay with my head in the street, watching a SEPTA bus heaving toward my skull, I resolved to never be afraid on horseback again. I didn't think of making a more sensible pledge, and resolving to move to a climate without ice.<br />
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A winter pansy, looking beaten but unbowed. Granted, it was a mild winter, but I'm still impressed by their survival. Also the decorative cabbage. <br />
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My gardens have always exhibited a lack of overall cohesion. I believe my harsher critics think this is due to some stupendous lack of vision, but they're wrong. I'm well aware that a deep purple pansy and a pale lavender cabbage are not natural compliments. The thing is, I like both of them. I'm an intensely personal gardener; that it pleases my eye is the goal. <br />
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Stephen Holt, il. Pers Crowell</div>
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1949, David McKay Company</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Shucks,” he managed
to whisper, “some horses have to die of colic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Harmon of the Double Anchor says so.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moving easily, he walked to a little niche beside the feed box and getting
a hammer started to nail the hasp back on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Working, he kept his eyes from roving out to the rolling Alberta hills
that would remind him of the sleek bay horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The hills over which he and Roy H had raced, but would never race
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Roy H was gone.</i></div>
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Glenn Barnes, abandoned at a lonely ranch house as an
infant, loves his adoptive parents Luce and Abbie, and their Shoestring Ranch
but now he has to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generous,
impulsive Luce is an easy touch for every salesman and con artist wandering through
their area of Canada, and a drought killed their last cows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shrewd, unlikeable Uncle Walt has offered
Glenn a job in his bank and Glenn, stunned by the loss of his horse, is dully
resigned to taking it and leaving the land for a small city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also left behind, his dreams of becoming a
veterinarian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This, of course, will not happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Glenn’s final night of freedom, camped out
in a ravine on the outskirts of town, he encounters a horse, a rodeo castoff
with cropped ears and a rage against humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The horse, a blue roan, also has a stone in his foot and submits, after
an initial furious attack, to having Glenn help him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Against his will, Glenn’s determination to
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He’d found himself
now, and he knew that he had found his horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A sense of belonging to each other and of being alike filled him. Hadn’t
Luce found him on the doorstep? And hadn’t he found the roan down here in the
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local vet Doc Crane to hire him, then nurse the angry roan (now named Sky) back
to health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crane’s a tough boss, his
daughter Barbara is confusing (to readers as well, since she has the typical
lack of depth of a female character in a western), and Crane’s African-American
assistant Alan is all but hostile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that doesn’t even get to the central battle of the book, which is the fight
between Crane and the area’s largest rancher, Peters, over mange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vet is determined to have all cattle
dipped to prevent the disease, and the rancher is determined to avoid it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far, Peters has been winning easily, to
the point where Crane’s last assistant decamped to become Peters’ new ranch
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glenn, now, is caught in the
middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at intervals, Sky’s former
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I’m a bit of a fan of hyperbole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy every overblown, action-packed moment
of excess drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think the random
appearances of Sky’s former owner really just gilded the lily on this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You already have a hero with four different
father figures (plus one actual if non-present father), two haunting bonds to
special horses, and no less than four men who we’re forced to understand –
broody Alan and his painful racial past, Doc Crane and his fight to clear the
range of disease, cowboy king Peters and his need to be proven right over a
mouthy newcomer, and dreamy poet Luce’s desire to latch onto a lucky thing by
investing in random inventions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
such a thing as demanding too much of a reader, and asking them to worry about
Alan’s pride and Peters’ status while also wondering if the villain will manage
to steal back the already troubled Sky – well, it’s overload.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we all end up in a rodeo, Glenn’s
final dilemma seems less pressing than our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Caveat: My opinion may have been influenced by reading this too soon after another Holt/Thompson title, <i>Spook, The Mustang</i>, and the similarities being slightly irritating. Like realizing that a favorite author has an unfortunate weakness for "azure eyes" or using inappropriate words as verbs (aka, "she startled at his touch.") Also, it's March, and this is not a month that brings out the sunny side. Literally, as it's been ungodly overcast for weeks. </div>
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many of his races and becomes famous again after the 2001 Laura Hillenbrand
book, was born on a ranch near Cardston. And the <a href="http://www.history.alberta.ca/remington/default.aspx" target="_blank">Remington Carriage Museum</a> is a local attraction.</div>
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Harlan Thompson, il. Millard Sheets</div>
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1956, Doubleday and Company</div>
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1968, Grosset & Dunlap Famous Horse Stories (edition
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After his ranch venture fails in Mexico, saddle-maker Luis
Barry returns to his father’s home in central California with his 17-year-old
son David and wife Victoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luis is
frail, recovering from a nervous breakdown, and Victoria’s a traditional
Spanish wife who defers to her men, so the bulk of the driving and worrying are
left to David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And David’s sick of
ranching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The collapse of their hopes in
Mexico has left him disillusioned and hoping only to get a normal job, make
some money, and get his parents stable again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when they stop to visit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandy
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One of those circumstances is a little black colt David
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his head away as the black, with a last flick of his shiny hoofs, raced to join
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The family stays, and David goes to work for their neighbor,
a tough rancher named King Jordan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grandy’s property, the Condor Ranch, has back taxes owing and David
basically has two years to pay it off or lose the ranch to Jordan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over those two years, he works Jordan’s
ranch, struggles to raise the few cattle remaining on the Condor, and trains
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Spook, the real reason for David’s decision to give ranching
another try, had a terrifying experience with the great condors and it leaves
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suddenly three
squaking crows, playing tag with a stick, flew directly across the corral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They made a din.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their wings shadowed the ground.</i></div>
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An interesting Western horse book, full of ranching stories
and rodeo action, as well as the long mystery of what happened to Grandy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The setting – near the Sespe Condor Sanctuary
in California – is also interesting, as is the presence of the condors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Side note</b></div>
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David’s mother is from the same family that stars in Thompson’s
1952 novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Roan</i>.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The California Condor</b></div>
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You can hardly blame Spook for his fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The California Condor has one of the largest
wingspans in the world at 9.5’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1982
there were only 22 left in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1987, the last one was removed from the wild, a story I remember vividly from
my childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are 408 birds, 231
of them in the wild, today.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Links</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.janebadgerbooks.co.uk/usa/holt.html" target="_blank">Jane Badger Books</a> </div>
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<a href="http://harlanthompson.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ponymad Booklovers</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.fws.gov/hoppermountain/Visitors.html" target="_blank">US Fish and Wildlife page for Hopper Mountain NationalWildlife Complex</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.friendsofcondors.org/" target="_blank">Friends Of California Condors Wild and Free</a></div>
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<b>The Great Pony Hassle</b></div>
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Nancy Springer, il. Daniel Mark Duffy</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You promised!”
Paisley McPherson yelled at her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“You told me if we had to live here, you’d get me a pony! You did!”</i></div>
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Two sets of twins become siblings when their parents
marry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And although big, brash Paisley
is the only one who actually says it, all four girls want ponies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Paisley sets out to secure her equine and
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I don’t believe this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We go away, come back a couple days later,
and the backyard’s turned into a pony farm.”</i></div>
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… her sisters watch with slitted eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her twin, Stirling, affects to not care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Fontecchio twins, Toni and Staci, also
fake indifference but of course, all three are wild with jealousy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no wonder.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He was a palomino, a
round, short-legged little palomino with a mass of forelock, like bangs that
needed to be combed and trimmed, over those huge eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had enough creamy-blond mane and tail for
six ordinary ponies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His golden ears,
turned at a contented sideward angle, pricked tiny through his thick mane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His golden cheeks and pink nose moved as he
selected a tuft of daisies and chewed it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His tail, long and plump, swished almost as white as the flowers.</i></div>
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The pony, Noodles, and the silent girl-war carried out through
disinformation, things left unsaid and other classic girl tactics, befuddle the
doting father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearing everything up,
finally, is his brisk, horsey sister Caledonia, who comes to assess the pony
and ends up instantly figuring out what’s going on with the kids. It's a funny, accurate, age-appropriate book.</div>
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-springer/the-great-pony-hassle/" target="_blank">Kirkus review</a> – pretty accurate </div>
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<a href="http://www.nancyspringer.info/" target="_blank">Nancy Springer’s website</a> (includes brief essay about horses)</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other books – horsey</b></div>
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<i>Sky Rider </i></div>
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<i>The Boy On A Black Horse</i></div>
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<i>They’re All Named Wildfire</i> (I must interject that this is possibly the best horsey title ever)<i></i></div>
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<i>A Horse To Love</i></div>
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<i>Not On A White Horse</i></div>
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<i>Music Of Their Hooves: Poems About Horses</i></div>
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<i>Colt</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Short story</b></div>
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"The Boy Who Plaited Manes" (<i>Fantasy & Science Fiction</i>
magazine, October 1986)</div>
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<b>Conquista!</b></div>
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Clyde Robert Bulla and Michael Syson, il. Ronald Himler</div>
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1978, Thomas Y. Crowell</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In South America,
Pizarro plundered the Incas and sent their gold to Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other Spaniards traveled far into North
America in search of treasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was Coronado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much is known of his expedition, but there is
much that can never be known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
follows is not a historical account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
tells what might have happened.</i></div>
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A very short (35-page) and simple book revolving around the
early days of the horse in North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this imagining, a lost horse from Coronado’s 1540 expedition comes
across a Native American boy who’s alone on the plains, waiting for a vision
that will reveal his true name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When boy
meets horse, he’s astonished, terrified – and quickly obsessed with riding
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The desert was flying
past him – the earth, the rocks, the growing things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once this land had made him feel small, but
no longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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Bulla wrote a lot of books, and many were horsey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve come across many and remember a few from
childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re quick, smart, and
capably written, but only one is truly memorable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dexter</i>,
a haunting story of a pony left to die when a troubled family skips town
suddenly, has the depth and complexity that most of Bulla’s work lacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since most of his books are written for
younger children, this is not exactly a scathing criticism, I admit, but I
think some of his books seem to have been churned out rather perfunctorily.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Background</b></div>
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The book was inspired by a 1971 short film by Michael Syson,
which is apparently one of those films that both lingered in viewer’s memories
and was thereafter extremely difficult to track down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reportedly a British production, it was shot
in Spain in 1970 and shown in different versions and lengths in various countries
at various times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Author</b></div>
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1914-2007</div>
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Bulla was born in Missouri and seems to have be determined
to be a writer from an early age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
persisted until finally establishing himself with children’s books, and moved
to Los Angeles in the 1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An extremely
prolific writer, he produced about a book a year throughout his life.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other books (equine)</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Riding The Pony
Express</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Of Wild Horse
Canyon</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Ranch For Danny</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Three Dollar Mule</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wild Arabian</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dexter</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Donkey Cart</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surprise For A Cowboy</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Charlie</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Illustrator</b></div>
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Born and raised in Ohio, Himler has illustrated many
children’s books.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other horse books</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Best Horse Ever</i>
by Alice DeLaCroix (picture book)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Someday Rider</i> by
Ann Herbert Scott<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(picture book)</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Grass Green Gallop</i>
by Patricia Hubbell (poetry collection for children)</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1squez_de_Coronado" target="_blank">Wikipedia on Francisco Vasquez de Coronado</a></div>
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<a href="http://carlweingarten.blogspot.com/2011/12/rediscovering-conquista.html" target="_blank">Blog entry about the film (includes video of the movie)</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/clyde-robert-michael-syson-bulla/conquista/" target="_blank">Kirkus review of the book</a></div>
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The Little Brown Horse<br />
Margaret G. Otto, il. Barbara Cooney<br />
1959, Alfred A. Knopf<br />
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A foal goes in search of his missing friends, the cat and hen, and discovers a new crop of farm babies in this simple picture book.<br />
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<b>About the Author</b><br />
Margaret G. Hansl was a New York literary agent who married Stuart Otto. She was a neighbor of fellow author Robert Lawson (<i>Rabbit Hill</i>), and executor of his estate. She and her husband collaborated on nonfiction books for children, and Margaret wrote several picture books.<br />
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Barbara Cooney (1917-2000) wrote and illustrated many children's books. This <a href="http://anemotionbysusan.blogspot.com/2010/10/barbara-cooney.html" target="_blank">blog</a> entry about her contains an image of the book's dust jacket.<br />
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