Lovely short book, first chapter book perhaps. Good story with a lot of depth for its brevity. I could really relate to Ros's worries. So glad to have it all work out. I did love the illustration with this one. ( )

Too gloomy for my taste - the story of a young girl rescuing a pony from dreadful abuse. A quick read with the usual excellent characterization and depth you'd expect from Peyton (for example, Ros is the pony mad child but she's assisted by her best (boy) friend, who admits himself he has nothing of her courage and admires her so much, which I found to be such a generous description of their friendship and a beautiful touch to have a female character decpited in such terms by a male character) but that was so incredibly depressing. ( )