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www.victoriaeveleigh.co.uk/Publisher
Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing CoPublication date
2nd February 2012ISBN
9781444005417Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Katy's Wild Foal (Katy's Ponies)
Victoria Eveleigh
Part of the 'Katy's Ponies' Series
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
How Katy discovers a newborn Exmoor foal on her birthday and persuades her family that she can look after it launches a tender and convincing story of one girl’s passion for ponies. Victoria Eveleigh gives enough details of pony care and training to make the story essential reading for all those who are pony-mad and enough delightful general background about friends, family and farming to make it an enjoyable story for all.
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Synopsis
Katy's Wild Foal (Katy's Ponies) by Victoria EveleighThe first book in Victoria Eveleigh's enchanting pony trilogy. Katy's birthday doesn't feel very special, until she discovers a tiny newborn foal on the moor. It walks right up to her with wobbly steps, and Katy is spellbound. As she reaches out and touches its forehead, Katy longs for the foal to be hers. But how will she ever persuade her family?
Reviews
'I picked this book up last night - just for a look - and didn't put it down until I finished it. ..I was pulled straight into the life of Barton Farm.' - The Bookbag
'What comes over straight away is that [Victoria Eveleigh] writes about what she knows' - Exmoor Pony Society
'Without doubt Victoria Eveleigh is the best contemporary writer of pony stories around.' Lovereading4kids
About The Author
Victoria Eveleigh was born in London, but her heart has always been in the countryside and she spent as many of her school holidays as possible at West Ilkerton Farm – her grandmother’s farm on Exmoor.
After completing a masters degree in farm business management, Victoria lived at West Ilkerton and worked part-time for the Exmoor National Park Authority, creating information leaflets and guided walks. Soon she met Chris, who was the farm manager on a nearby farm. They married in 1986 and spent their honeymoon on Lundy, an island off the North Devon coast. Lundy has become a special place for them, and they return whenever they can.
For the past 25 years Chris and Victoria have farmed West Ilkerton. They have a son called George and a daughter called Sarah. When Sarah was a girl she had an Exmoor pony called Tinkerbell. Their eventful partnership inspired Victoria to write her first stories: a trilogy about a girl and an Exmoor pony growing up together on an Exmoor hill farm. The Katy's Exmoor trilogy was illustrated by Chris, and they self-published it under the imprint Tortoise Publishing. They also published a book called Midnight on Lundy.
These books are now out of print because Victoria has been taken on by Orion Children’s Books. The Katy's Exmoor trilogy has been re-written and updated with expert editorial guidance, and it will be published by Orion in 2012 as Katy's Wild Foal, Katy's Champion Pony and Katy's Pony Surprise. The books have a great deal of new content, including author's notes, some new inside illustrations by Chris and beautiful cover illustrations by Angelo Rinaldi. Midnight on Lundy is also being republished in 2012, as A Stallion Called Midnight.
Victoria is now working on a brand new trilogy for Orion. It will still have horses and ponies at its heart, but this time a boy will be the main character. Her stories are full of the things she loves: horses and ponies, the countryside, farming and people.
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