Mark van Doren

Dick and Tom, Tales of Two Ponies

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1931, illus George M Richards, 68 pp. Pictorial endpapers, Margaret
van Doren.

“Charlie’s father tells him stories about the ponies he and his brother had when they were children:  red Dick
and black Tom.

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) was a “legendary classroom presence”; a poet, teacher and Pulitzer Prize Winner for his Collected Poems.  Columbia College today honours great teachers with the Mark van Doren Award.   

Dick and Tom, Tales of Two Ponies was written early in his career, and on publication was insribed by him “To Mother and Dad, who wilk know how untrue these stories are.”

Finding the book:  scarce and expensive; it was not published in the UK.

Sources and links:

Mark van Doren, Wikipedia

Mark van Doren at Columbia

Some of Mark van Doren’s sonnets

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

Bibliography - horse books only