Horses Genre
Books in the Horses genre:
Wild Pony Island (1959)
When Rick Landon comes to the attention of the law. his mother decides to move the family back to her home town - Ocracoke Island.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
Best in Children’s Books Volume 32 (1960)
Author(s):
Thornton W. Burgess
Carlo Collodi
Maud Hart Lovelace
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
The Black Stallion and Flame (1960)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
Wild Horse Kingdom (1960)
The story of how the author built up a pony farm in the wilds of Wales.
Author(s):
Mel Wayne
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Katie and the Sad Noise (1961)
Katie hears a sad noise in the night, three days running. On the third day, she leads her father and the townsfolk in tracking it down.
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ellie Simmons
Little Black: A Pony (1961)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
James Schucker
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Picco the Sad Italian Pony (1961)
Alfredo and Gina do everything they can think of to cheer up the little pony, but nothing works, until Alfredo has a brilliant idea.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
Horses and Their Friends (1962)
Author(s):
Kate Barnes
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Man o’ War (1962)
A fictionalized biography of America’s greatest race horse.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Corso the Donkey (1963)
Author(s):
Christina Elizabeth Pothast-Gimberg
Illustrator(s):
Elly van Beek
Little Black Goes to the Circus (1963)
The little black pony tries and tries again, and succeeds at the circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
James Schucker
Stormy, Misty’s Foal (1963)
Author(s):
Marguerite Henry
Illustrator(s):
Wesley Dennis
The Turret (1963)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Black Stallion Challenged! (1964)
Steve Duncan and Flame challenge Alec Ramsay and the Black to race.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Pony in the Schoolhouse (1964)
When the children are stranded in the schoolhouse by a blizzard, they bring Star inside as well to keep him from freezing.
Author(s):
Miska Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Golden Country (1965)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
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