Dora at Follyfoot [Hardcover]

Monica Dickens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1972

A story featuring the characters who first appeared in "Follyfoot". With the Colonel away, Dora and Steve are left in charge of Follyfoot Farm. When Dora decides to buy Amigo, an old lame horse, everyone at the farm helps her to win the Moonlight Pony Steeplechase and pay back the money.

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About the Author

Monica Dickens was a great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and born in 1915, She was one of the two or three best-selling woman's novelists of her generation. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, but was expelled after throwing her school uniform over Hammersmith Bridge. She joined a drama school before being presented at Court in 1935. During the war she worked as a nurse and in a Spitfire factory, and began writing novels. Praise came with every book: JB Priestley wrote 'Monica Dickens gets better and better', AS Byatt argued that she was much underestimated. John Betjeman declared that she was a novelist 'who has all the airs and graces a reader could wish for'. Monica Dickens felt the challenge to write for children and began in the 1970s. Her Follyfoot books were made into one of the most successful TV series for children of the 1970s and remain a favourite of horse-lovers everywhere. Monica Dickens loved riding and she kept horses. She died in 1985 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (June 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0434934496
• ISBN-13: 978-0434934492
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,272,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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