Monica Edwards Bibliography 2

Cargo of Horses
Collins, London, 1951, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Junior Fontanas, pb, 1955
Armada, pb, 1965
Collins Pony Library, 1972
Goodchild, Wendover, 1984 (Revised)

The Romney Marsh people learn that the cargo of the
white ship is horses bound for slaughter, and they are
determined to rescue them.

The Spirit of Punchbowl Farm
Collins, London, 1952, illus Joan Wanklyn
Armada, pb, 1963
Goodchild, Aylesbury, 1986 (Revised)

The ancient yew tree is threatened with being cut down at Punchbowl Farm.  It is in the way,
but Lindsay loves it.  It holds, she thinks, the spirit of the farm, and she is determined to find a
way of saving it, even  if it means selling her hair to raise money to fence in the tree.

Punchbowl Midnight
Collins, London, 1951, illus Charles Tunnicliffe
Chlidren’s Book Club, 1953
Collins, 1956
Armada, pb, 1963
Goodchild, Aylesbury, 1986 (Revised)

Punchbowl Midnight is one of the first calves Dion has bred, but she
escapes. The deer threaten more than Midnight, and Lindsay, and Tamzin
who has come to stay, try to keep them away from the fields.

The White Riders

Collins, London, 1950, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Puffin, pb, 1956
Goodchild, Wendover, 1984 (Revised)

Tamzin and Rissa are keeping house for the Merrows, when they learn
some city men  plan to build a holiday camp on the Marshes.  Determined
to stop them, they disguise themselves as the dreaded White Riders, and
career across the marsh at night.

Hidden in a Dream
Collins, London, 1952, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Children’s Book Club, 1953
Collins Evergreen, 1966, John Goodchild, 1986 (revised)

Girls Gone By, 2006

Meryon hits his head in an accident, and loses his memory about the
entire incident.  They are all sleeping out in the Martello Tower that summer,
but because of Meryon’s bad dreams, they are all disturbed. It looks as if only
Meryon can solve the mystery of the missing stranger.

No Entry
Collins, London, 1954,  illus Geoffrey Whittam
Children’s Book Club, 1956
Armada, pb, 1964
Collins Pony Library, 1972
Girls Gone By, 2005

Foot and mouth threatens the Marsh, and the Merrows’
farm is threatened.  After they end up staying there,
Tamzin and Rissa et al find they have to run the farm
and patrol the boundaries.

Punchbowl Harvest
Collins, London, 1954, illus Joan Wanklyn
Armada, pb, 1966
Chivers, 1974

Harvest at the Punchbowl seems fraught with potential disaster: the weather destroys
their work, and Dion’s pet fox Toddy is suspected of massacring the local farmer’s chickens.

Storm Ahead
Collins, London, 1953, illus Geoffrey Whittam

Puffin, paperback, 1957
Girls Gone By, pb, 2005

Based on a real incident, a great storm hits the coast, and the village is flooded.  The lifeboat is launched, but
the rescue goes tragically wrong. Lindsay has an encounter with a mad dog, and Tamzin has to embark on a
dangerous night time ride to fetch the doctor.

The Wanderer

Collins, London, 1953, illus Joan Wanklyn

Children’s Book Club (middle)
Collins, London, 1957
Armada, pb, 1968

Lindsay’s colt, Chalice, proves that he is an excellent escape artist,
and then it looks as if he might have caused a serious accident.
 

Joan Goes Farming
Collins, London, 1954

Joan decides she wants to take up farming as a career, and  after some work experience at a Surrey
farm when she is taken complete advantage of by the farmer’s rather useless wife, goes off to college.
She just about meets romance along the way, and in the end has to decide whether to
marry or go off and start her career.

Strangers to the Marsh
Collins, London, 1957, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Children’s Book Club, 1958
John Goodchild, Aylesbury, 1986 (Revised)
Girls Gone By, pb, 2007

A rare bird, the hoopoe, nests at the castle.  Jim Decks destroys the
baker’s cakes after Tamzin distracts him, and she and her friends decide
to bail Jim out by founding a newspaper, The Westling News.  

 

Operation Seabird
Collins, London, 1957, illus Geoffrey Whittam

Children’s Book Club, 1958

Girls Gone By, pb, 2007

Tamzin and Rissa discover many seabirds are dying, clogged with oil.  They form the
Seabirds Rescue League, and start an operation to clean the birds up.  

Frenchman’s Secret

Collins, London, 1956, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Children’s Book Club, 1958
Armada, pb, 1965

Ruth and Roy have come to live at the Mill House, and meet the Punchbowl Farm people.  When
Lindsay finds an old map, she wonders if there is treasure still buried in the dam which keeps
water back above the Mill House. Roy decides to blow a small hole in the dam to find out.

The Nightbird
Collins, London, 1955, illus Geoffrey Whittam
Collins, 1956
Armada, pb, 1963
Girls Gone By, Bath, pb, 2006

The fishermen of Westling find their fishing grounds are being poached
by French boats.  Tamzin and friends decide to turn Jim’s old trawler
into a ghost shop to frighten the French boats away.

Rennie Goes Riding
Collins, London, 1956, illus Sheila Rose (I think)

Knight, pb, 1968, 1973,1979

Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the picture of the hardback.

Rennie only wants to work with horses, and at last she
gets the chance to train, but then finds she has to battle
with her nerves.