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Jane Badger Books
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Jane Ayres
Jane Ayres, born in 1962, contributed one title to J A Allen’s Equestrian Fiction series.  The Great Horse Rescue is about a local livery yard, threatened with demolition. It is one of the earlier books to reflect the change in how horses were kept and the expansion of horse and pony keeping, with most owners having no choice but to use a livery yard.  Jane has also had pony stories published by Stabenfeldt, the USA/Scandinavian publisher producing traditional pony stories.  She has written the Matty series for them, featuring Matty and her Pony Mad Girl Gang, as well as numerous titles which have not been printed in English.

Besides writing, Jane is keen on Egyptian dancing, and teaches music and English.  She has a cat called Biggles.

Finding the books:  all the books are easy to find and shouldn’t be too expensive.  You might, though, have to try American sites for the two Stabenfeldt titles.

Links:
Jane Ayre’s biography on Stabenfeldt

Horses in the Gallery
Armada, London, 1990

 

Many thanks to Dawn Harrison for the photo.

 

The exhibition of holographic art didn’t look very exciting from outside, but Mo and Mark had a few hours to kill.
As they looked round, something very strange began to happen:  the holograms seemed to be coming to life.
This is a colllection of twenty short horse stories.

 

 

The Great Horse Rescue
J A Allen, London, 1996

 

The local livery yard is demolished to make way for a new DIY centre, and Moya and Sue have to search
for a new home for their ponies.  They meet a squatter who is occupying the Grange, and their ponies
become squatters too.  Then more and more unwanted horses and ponies find their way to the Grange,
and to top it all the former tenants of the Grange, who left under a cloud, arrive to collect their ill-gotten
gains.

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Other titles:

 

Matty and the Moonlight Horse
Stabenfeldt, 2005, pb)

 

Matty and the Problem Ponies
(Stabenfeldt, 2006, pb)