Not sure where to start?
We've put together a collection of books that should be on everyone's shelves. You'll get five of our most popular books in one money-saving collection.
There's Ruby Ferguson's Jill's Gymkhana. Wry and funny, Jill and her ponies enchant most people. If you're after a thoroughly believeable teenager, then there's For Love of a Horse, Patricia Leitch's first story of Jinny and her chestnut Arab mare, Shantih. Caroline Akrill's Eventer's Dream introduces the unforgettable, wildly eccentric Fane sisters. Six Ponies is a classic Pullein-Thompson title about children and the Pony Club. I Wanted a Pony is another Pullein-Thompson title. It's the book to buy if you want to live the dream of getting a pony.
You can buy all these books in one money-saving collection, or individually.
Collections
Collections are a great way to buy complete series of books. You'll save money over buying the books individually, and who doesn't like a complete set? They're available for all the series JBB do.
Illustrated books
Illustrated books make brilliant presents. Anne Bullen illustrations are universally loved, and you can also buy books illustrated by Sheila Rose and Elisabeth Grant. Our paperback editions have all the original illustrations, carefully restored.
Boys ride too
Here's a selection of books where boys are the main characters, or in equal numbers to girls.
Books to curl up with
What do you do in those in-between Christmas and New Year days? Find a good book and escape into another world, that's what.
Here are some excellent get-away-from-it-all reads.
Diana Pullein-Thompson: I Wanted a Pony
Joanna Cannan: We Met Our Cousins
The weather outside is frightful
But in pony book land it's summer, and time for adventure.
Try Josephine Pullein-Thompson's Moors series, where she swops the Pony Club world for adventure on the moors. Still plenty of ponies, of course.
Diana Pullein-Thompson wrote adventures too. Sandy and Fergus get a lot more than they bargained for on a trek in Ponies on the Trail.
Books to make you laugh
The Jill books have their own wry humour, and Patricia Leitch writes a brilliant funny pony story. Try her Pony Surprise, for Augustus the Highland with a mind of his own, and Cross-Country Pony, in which you'll meet Harold, who has one talent . Caroline Akrill's Fane sisters sparkle in her Eventers' series, and there are four books in that.
Follow-ons
JBB don't just do reprints .... Caroline Akrill has written a fourth part to her Eventer's series, and you can now find out what happened to Elaine and the Fane sisters in Courses for Horses. Then there's Jane Badger's Jill and the Lost Ponies, a follow-on to the Jill series.
Pony Club stories
The Pony Club has inspired stories for generations. There's Josephine Pullein-Thompson's classic Noel and Henry series, with five books of the Barsetshire Pony Clubs adventures. The Woodbury Pony Club books by Josephine Pullein-Thompson are set in the 1980s. Absolutely authentic, with brilliant characters, and completely classic Pony Club throughout.
Books for older readers
All these books feature characters who have left school (or are about to!)
Bobby, in Gillian Baxter's brilliant Bracken Stables series, wrestles with the demands of school and competing. Josephine Pullein-Thompson's Kate is at her first job in A Job with Horses.
Christine Pullein-Thompson's The Impossible Horse is one of our most popular books, combining rehabilitating a horse and romance.