Allen Chaffee
Wandy the Wild Pony
John Murray, London, 1933, illus D L Mays
Reprinted several times: right is the 1960 reprint
Wandy is a Dartmoor pony, born wild. Then he has to fend for himself, until his
capture by two children
and an Irish groom. Much though he enjoys his life with the
children; the shows and hunting, he waits
for a chance to gain his freedom, and just
before a great snow storm he escapes.
Wandy Wins! -
Reprinted several times: right is the 1952 reprint
Wandy throws Percy on a muck heap; Arthur trains him as a race horse and he has fun
with his friends, but
then Wandy is stolen by a man with shifty eyes and it is only
by the cleverness of Mickey, the fisher boy, that
they escape and Wandy finds his
way home.
Allen Chaffee adapted several children’s classics, including Hiawatha, Bambi’s Children and The Wizard of Oz. Her fiction included several other books on animals, as well as her two pony books, about Wandy the Dartmoor. They are fairly conventional pony biographies.
Finding the books: both are easy to find: Wandy Wins tends to be the more expensive of the two, particularly with its dustjacket.
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