Horse & pony stories / Horse and pony stories chosen by Christine Pullein-Thompson ; illustrated by Victor Ambrus. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1994. - 254 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Red hot reads .

"Kingfisher".

My friend Flicka (an extract) / Mary O'Hara -- The wild heart (an extract) / Helen Griffiths -- Breed of giants (an extract / Joyce Stranger -- Silver Blaze / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Black Beauty (an extract) / Anna Sewell -- Bellerophon / L.S. Hyde -- Horse in the house (an extract) / William Corbin -- Banks and Morocco / Ruth Manning-Sanders -- The ghost in the top meadow / Christine Pullein-Thompson -- Strider : the story of a horse (an extract) / Leo Tolstoy -- A wayside adventure (from The horse and his boy) / C.S. Lewis -- Rescue (from The Black Stallion) / Walter Farley -- The rocking horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Behold, the Palio! (from Gaudenzia, pride of the Palio) / Marguerite Henry -- A man justly popular (from Lorna Doone) / R.D. Blackmore -- Follyfoot (an extract) / Monica Dickens -- A night of wolves (from Smoky the cowhorse) / Will James -- Red morning (from More ponies for Jean) / Joanna Cannan -- War horse (an extract) / Michael Morpurgo -- The Brogue / Saki.

Includes complete stories and extracts of longer works, all about horses, by such authors as Mary O'Hara, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Lewis, and Marguerite Henry.

"Ages 9-14"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN: 0753456397 (pbk.)

LCCN: 93029422

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories.
Horses--Fiction.