Ellsworth Newcomb

Ellsworth Newcomb is an author about whom I hav been able to find out little.  He wrote serveral non fiction books for children on materials, including Miracle Plastics, Miracle Glass, Miracle Fabrics and Miracle Metals.  He wrote one horse book, Three Came Riding, and contributed to The American Girl Book of Horse Stories.

Finding the book:  reasonably easy to find in the USA, though copies are generally ex library.  It was not published in the UK.

Sources and links:

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

National Library of Congress

Bibliography - horse books only

Three Came Riding

Norton, New York, 1964, illus Christina F. Christensen, 82 pp.

“Jose fears that his horse Mingo will have to be sold  to buy food, as his mother’s Puerto Rican rugs are not selling
well.  He goes to San Juan to the cathedral to pray that the Three Kings will accept the horse during the Christmas

Season.”

Short stories:

Two for the Show

In American Girl Book of Horse Stories,

Girl Scouts of the United States, 1946, illus Sam Savitt.

A review of the book on the Pony Book Chronicles