The Pony Book Club: a pre-teen respite
Nina Powles revisits her childhood obsession with The Saddle Club series and finds their appeal, though flawed, remains. There was one book in the school library that I got out so many times I knew its exact place on the shelf. The cover had a wild horse on it, its mane and tail flowing in the wind, standing in a field of tall grass beneath a sky streaked with clouds. I can’t remember the book’s title, only that it was about a wild horse that lived somewhere in the plains of