The House Pony E-Book

Juliet Blaxland

• Herausgeber: J A Allen
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This delightful picture book uses an ABC format to tell the story of a child who wants to keep a pony in the house. Each image contains items beginning with a particular letter, which the reader can enjoy searching for while learning valuable facts about horse welfare. There is something from every letter of the alphabet in the picture on the front cover - but can you find them all?

Leseprobe

THE HOUSE PONY

AN ABC OF HORSEMANSHIP

JULIET BLAXLAND

J.A. ALLEN

First published in 2017 by J.A.Allen

www.allenbooks.co.uk

J.A.Allen is an imprint of

The Crowood Press Ltd

Ramsbury, Marlborough

Wiltshire SN8 2HR

www.crowood.com

This e-book first published in 2017

© Juliet Blaxland 2017

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 1 90880 963 6

Dedication

The House Pony is dedicated to the Pullein-Thompson sisters, who wrote wonderful pony books, and to the many ponies, real, imaginary and fictional, who were the making of my childhood.

@JulietBlaxland

Introduction

This is the story of a pony who was found wandering about on the M4 motorway, and then found himself in the care of a kind and knowledgeable horsey person, who we shall call Aunt Jelly. Aunt Jelly was a scatterbrain about everything except horses. Aunt Jelly lived in a big, crumbling house in the country, and looked after a large number of animals that had been sent to her by people who had rescued them from various cruelties. Aunt Jelly also had a scruffy tomboy niece called Tuttyhead who, for reasons too boring to explain, was staying with her for a long holiday. Tuttyhead wanted the motorway pony to be allowed to live in the house.

‘Please may the motorway pony come and live in the house, Aunt Jelly?’ asked Tuttyhead.

‘Of course he can. He can live in the house and be known as The House Pony, but you must look after him, and see to all his needs, and make sure he is happy. It will be fun!’ said Aunt Jelly, with a look that hinted that the last place a pony should live is in a house.

Oh my giddy aunt, thought Tuttyhead. Anyone else’s aunt would have said no to the idea of The House Pony. The needs and wants of a real live pony suddenly seemed a big responsibility. The House Pony himself also seemed suddenly quite big.

‘Right. Let’s start,’ said Aunt Jelly. So they did.