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Pamela, a lonely little girl, lives in an isolated house with her two aunts (one nice, one distant and strict). Her absentee father visits occasionally, and her mom is dead. But her life gets a lot more fun when she gets a magic amulet that enables her to meet a mysterious boy her own age and his herd of pastel ponies.
Obviously, the best part of this book is the pastel ponies. Who wouldn't want a herd of pink, blue, sunset, and sunrise-colored ponies named after clouds? I wish I'd read this book when I was nine, because I would have absolutely reveled in the pretty, pretty ponies. Probably a better title would have been The Rainbow Ponies.
Ponyboy is annoying - the book was written when it was common to portray boys being sexist as cute and funny, and that has not aged well. But like I said: pretty, pretty pink ponies! If you think you'd like that, you will certainly enjoy this book.
Season of Ponies
Obviously, the best part of this book is the pastel ponies. Who wouldn't want a herd of pink, blue, sunset, and sunrise-colored ponies named after clouds? I wish I'd read this book when I was nine, because I would have absolutely reveled in the pretty, pretty ponies. Probably a better title would have been The Rainbow Ponies.
Ponyboy is annoying - the book was written when it was common to portray boys being sexist as cute and funny, and that has not aged well. But like I said: pretty, pretty pink ponies! If you think you'd like that, you will certainly enjoy this book.
Season of Ponies
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I take it you either read this recently or recall it well?
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But, as you said, the best part were the ponies themselves. I so wanted one of the ponies to return to Pamela when she got older. (I know, I know. Shades of Fog Magic.)
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Did you ever read Shirley Rosseau Murphy's The Sand Ponies, or her White Ghost Summer?
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They're realistic but not grim modern fiction, set in California in the 1960s, with a tiny bit of possible magic thrown in.
In The Sand Ponies, John and Karen, siblings about 12 years old who have been orphaned and lost their family ranch (where they had horses), decide to run away from their guardians, an alcoholic aunt and uncle. They end up along the northern California coast in a tiny town that has a herd of wild ponies living outside it, and they end up solving a mystery and finding a new home (or possibly two new homes: the ending leaves their final decision about that open).
In White Ghost Summer, a single-parent family (widowed book illustrator mother, four sisters - one adopted - and a brother ranging in age from 17 to 9) move out of their apartment to a huge, ramshackle Victorian house across the street from the ocean and a large park (the setting seems to be San Francisco), where 11-year-old Mel (Melani) and 13-year-old ZeeZee (Cecelia) keep seeing a mysterious white horse -- or perhaps just the ghost of one.
Murphy has a beautiful, lucid style and although the realities of life are never far away, everything comes right in the end in both stories.
I think you have to buy them used. I was going to send them to you as comfort reading, but then I thought, what if she already has them?
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On their way, but may not get there 'til after you're well again.
I hope you enjoy them!
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