Jane Badger Books
Jill Enjoys Her Ponies (Jill and the Runaway)
Synopsis
The different versions
Original Hodder & Stoughton printing, 1954, illustrated by Caney
Armada 1963, cover and illustrations by Caney
Knight 1970s
Cover W H Underwood, not illustrated
Cover W H Underwood, not illustrated
Knight 1980s
Cover uncredited
Not illustrated
Cover uncredited
Not illustrated
Knight 1990s
Cover uncredited
Cover uncredited
Super Hampton Library edn,
Illustrated by Caney
Illustrated by Caney
Acknowledgements: many thanks to Birte Scheel for the Hampton cover shot, and Diane Janes for the 1970s Armada.
Armada, probably 1970/71
Cover uncredited
Illustrations by Caney
Cover uncredited
Illustrations by Caney
Jill has hurt her wrist, and cannot ride in Chatton Show. She decides not to go at all, and spends a thoroughly miserable time. When the Lowes drop Mrs Crewe off from the show, Mrs Lowe tells Jill a friend of hers will be in touch: the letter duly arrives, and is propped on the coffee pot, which spreads its contents over the table. Jill is invited to Blossom Hall. She goes to Mrs Darcy’s to practise, and meets Dinah Dean when she gives her a lesson, for which Dinah cannot pay. After being initially horrified, Jill feels sorry for Dinah, who has to keep house for her father, and gives her her outgrown riding gear. Mrs Whirtley wants Jill and various horsey others to organise a fete and gymkhana at her home, Blossom Hall. At the next meeting, Jill’s cousin Cecila turns up. Jill is to ride Mrs Darcy’s Sandy Two in the Hack Class. Jill has another fit of feeling sorry for Dinah, and takes her on a hack into the woods, where she shows her a secret glade. Dinah then disappears, but she has taken some ponies with her. Jill realises where she must have gone, and takes her some food: it turns out that Dinah has rescued the ponies from slaughter. Jill visits the Cholly-Sawcutt establishment, and is offered a job by the Colonel when she finishes school. The Blossom Hall gymkhana goes well; Jill wins on Sandy Two. Just after the closing speeches, Dinah rides into the ring with the three ponies. Dinah’s father sees the error of his ways, and she is to go to boarding school, about which she is delighted. This book was re-titled by Knight in their late 1980s version. Why I am not quite sure: maybe they felt the new title was more exciting.
Hodder laminated hb 1970s
Frontis Elisabeth Grant
Frontis Elisabeth Grant
Hodder Children’s Books
1996
Cover Adrian Lascom
1996
Cover Adrian Lascom
Hodder’s Children’s Books
1993
Not illustrated
1993
Not illustrated