Jane Badger Books
Irene Makin
Irene Makin wrote two pony books: Ponies in the Attic is a charming read.
Finding the books: Ponies in the Attic is pretty easy to find in its Puffin incarnation. Ponies in Peril is a bit trickier to find, but not impossible. Copies are usually ex library.
Ponies in the Attic
Hutchinson, London,1970, illus Elisabeth Grant
Puffin, pb, 1973
Many thanks to Annette York for the pb photo.
Debbie is lonely, with her two bossy brothers and her impatient aunt, but she makes
friends
with a boy called Dan, when she’s chasing after a New Forest pony she’s seen
peering
through the hedge. However, Dan changes when she mentions where she lives,
and the
ponies she’s found, drawn on the walls of the attic. It turns out that Dan used
to
live in the house Rufus Acre, and he misses it with all his heart.
Ponies in Peril
Hutchinson, London, 1973, illus Beryl Saunders
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