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Horse & Pony Books:
AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND
(HODDER & STOUGHTON 1965)
Reprinted a number of times in hardback.
There was a Companion Book Club edition.
Also included in a Readers Digest condensed book edition.
Reprinted a number of times in paperback by various publishers.
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition, two different paperback editions.
SUMMARY: Adult romantic suspense novel with a Lippizaner horse theme. Vanessa sees her husband on a newsreel clip of a fire in Austria with his arms around a young blonde. As he has told her that he is on business in Sweden she begins to suspect he is having an affair and sets off to Austria to find him and confront him. Accompanying her is Timothy, the teenage son of a friend who wants to visit Austria to see his estranged father and also to pursue his dream of working with Lippizaners. The pair arrive in Vienna and become mixed up in the world of a circus and its performing dressage Lippizaner horses. Soon Vanessa finds out, not only the truth about her husband, but also the dangerous secret behind one of the circus horses.
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES
LUDO AND THE STAR HORSE
(BROCKHAMPTON 1974)
ILLUSTRATED BY GINO D'ACHILLE
Reprinted in hardback.
Reprinted in paperback more than once.
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition, older paperback, 2001 paperback.
SUMMARY: Unusual children's fantasy novel set in Bavaria some time in the past. When the family horse Renti runs off, young Ludo sets off to bring him home, only to discover that Renti is actually a star horse and is returning to his own kind. Ludo loves the horse and decides to accompany Renti on his strange and perilous journey through the lands of the Zodiac.
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES
Collectors info:
Both easy to find in paperback and fairly easy to find in hardback from internet bookshops. Airs Above the Ground can also be still found in some libraries.
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