Alison Prince

Award winning British author. Born in 1931. After studying and teaching art for a number of years, Ms. Prince turned to writing. A short story she penned featured on TV and her career, first as a writer for children's comics, then as a novelist, soon took off. She has written both adult and children's fiction, winning a number of awards for her work including the 1996 Guardian Fiction Award.

Many of her children's books are animal stories. One of these features a horse, a humourous tale about a group of kids trying to stable a rescued horse in their high rise flat. Her series of stories about Joe, a character featuring on the 1960s  television show, Watch With Mother also include a horse-related tale.

More information about the author and her books can be found on her own website.

Horse & Pony Books:

JOE AND A HORSE & OTHER STORIES
(With Joan Hickson)
FIRST EDITION BBC 1968
Reprinted in paperback by BBC
Rare
SUMMARY: Part of a series of books featuring  the character Joe from the 1960s children's TV series Watch With Mother. Includes four short stories, one of which concerns a horse.

THE TOWER BLOCK PONY
FIRST EDITION ORCHARD PB 2004
Paperback original
SUMMARY: Humourous pony story. Dermot doesn't understand why his sister Maeve is mad about horses. And when she and her friend Hannah rescue a horse and bring it to stay in their high rise apartment, he thinks she is madder still!

Collectors info:
Joe and a Horse is extremely rare, as indeed are most of the other 'Joe ' books. The Tower Block Pony was a paperback original. It is reasonably easy to find in the UK