DPT: Bibliography 2

Jane Badger Books

A Foal for Candy
Sparrow, pb 1981
(Reprinted Severn House hb 1982)
Character list

The dealing stables is slowly recovering from illness, but Candy, Lynn’s pony, proves to have
a surprise in store - what that is you can probably work out from the title!

Cassidy in Danger
Dent 1979
(Reprinted Armada pb 1981, as This Pony is Dangerous by J A Allen)

Character list

Katy is sent to stay with her godmother. Katy finds a pony in a field
to make friends with, but he is supposed to be dangerous. She also makes
friends with a boy who lives nearby, and his rat, and together they fight
for Cassidy, and try and help Katy with her own problems.

Ponies in Peril
Armada pb 1979, 126 pp. Not illustrated.
(Reprinted Severn House hb 1980)
Left pb, right hb

Character list

Another Pullein-Thompson book with six ponies, these are destined for slaughter unless
Sandy and Fergus can raise enough to save them. They do, and then break them in, but
there isn’t quite the conventional pony book ending you might expect.

Diana Pullein-Thompson Bibliography 2

Only a Pony
Armada 1980
(Reprinted Severn House hb 1986 - Left pb, right hb)
Character list

This is the fourth in the Augusta and Christina series: oddly it’s set in the 1980s, but the two
heroines are still teenagers. Both sets of parents have gone away, leaving Mignon the French
au-pair to look after them, but she leaves. They find Nico and his pony Rainbow. Nico’s father
is threatening to sell the unschooled Rainbow so Augusta and Christina offer to help.

The Pony Seekers
Sparrow, pb 1981
(Reprinted Severn House 1981)

Many thanks to Konstanze Allsopp for the picture of the hardback.

Character list

Lynn and David are desperate: their parents can no longer afford their ponies, and they will
have to be sold. After their elder sister Briony gives up her jumping career after a tragic
accident, they all found The Pony Seekers: a dealing business with a difference, but when
they don’t get a new pony checked by the vet disaster strikes.

Black Piper
In Black Beauty’s Family 2
Beaver, 1982
As far as I know, this wasn’t published separately.

Character list

Black Piper was born in Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, though travelled to England, and was saved from
death by an Irishman.

A Pony Found
Sparrow 1983
(Reprinted Severn House 1983)

Many thanks to Konstanze Allsopp for the picture of the hardback.
Character list

After their dealing business was offered a home bya local wealthy man, The Pony Seekers
thought their problems might be over, but the offer of a yard comes with a problem: their
benefactor’s daughter, Mirabelle.

The Long Ride Home
Cavalier, pb 1996

Character list

This is Diana’s last pony book, and is about Carey and her pony Sandpiper. Since she had meningitis, she has
not been well, and when her mother goes on a journey, leaving Carey to be looked after by Hannah, Hannah
exploits Carey’s weaknesses. To get away, she and Sandpiper set off to ride from the Scottish island where they
live to Yorkshire, where Carey’s grandmother lives.