Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

Mebane Holoman Burgwyn (1914-1992) was born in North Carolina, and lived there all her life.  She and her family lived on a farm near Jackson, North Carolina, and she worked as  Director of Guidance Services for Northampton County Schools.  Her children’s books, of which she wrote seven, won prizes:  the American Association of University Women award for the best juvenile book of the year in 1952 for Penny Rose, and again in 1970 for her one horse book, The Crackajack Pony.  

Finding the book:  reasonably easy to find in the USA; it was not published in the UK.

Sources and links:  

Terri A. Wear:  Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987

The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Jackson Library, holds some of her papers.

Bibliography - horse books only

The Donkey Cart

Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1969, 190 pp.  Illus Dale Payson

Cliff moves to his uncle’s farm, and there meets Ted, who teaches him to ride the pony Cricket.