tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post7040307399264595117..comments2024-02-27T10:50:27.922+00:00Comments on Books, Mud and Compost. And Horses.: Pony Tales and Puffin Books IJane Badgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-19312088437812702092016-11-09T11:32:32.154+00:002016-11-09T11:32:32.154+00:00I didn't get a copy of Storm Ahead until quite...I didn't get a copy of Storm Ahead until quite late on either. I wonder if it wasn't reprinted because of its subject matter? White Riders is an entirely lighter read, with the baddie worsted. In Storm Ahead people die. It's the sort of book that perhaps alerted parents' protective instincts leading them not to buy it, particularly if they could remember the disaster themselves. There is a story about one of Allen Seaby's books, whose cover had to be changed as it showed horses fighting and there were parental complaints about too much violence. Perhaps this was what did for the book. Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-48866590893549032772016-11-08T22:12:39.978+00:002016-11-08T22:12:39.978+00:00I read The White Riders in1962' but by that ti...I read The White Riders in1962' but by that time Storm Ahead had gone out of print. I've always been puzzled that The White Roders was reprinted, but not Storm Ahead. I didn't manage to get a copy until 1998.Elizabeth Williamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-4056767294843955752016-11-08T20:45:18.696+00:002016-11-08T20:45:18.696+00:00I absolutely agree with you about The Wool Pack - ...I absolutely agree with you about The Wool Pack - an excellent book. I upgraded my Puffin Good Master too, which I rather regret. Like you I still have my Puffin White Riders which I am sentimentally attached to as it is the first Monica Edwards I ever read. Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-85016710890750332952016-11-08T19:48:06.731+00:002016-11-08T19:48:06.731+00:00I've still got that version of The White Rider...I've still got that version of The White Riders, although I do have the GGBP edition on order. I've read most of the others, and particularly love The Good Master, although my copy is a hardcover. Strangely enough, considering I live in Canada, I've never read Susannah of the Mounties. One early Puffin I owned for years was Cynthia Harnett's The Wool Pack, a fine historical which I bought a hardcover copy of after the cover fell off the old Puffin. It also isn't really a pony book, although Nicholas does get his own horse in it.Goldieloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01787685030334225140noreply@blogger.com