The Silver Brumby
10 best books like The Silver Brumby (Elyne Mitchell): My Brilliant Career, I Can Jump Puddles, Seven Little Australians, Hunter's Moon, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Crookedstar's Promise, The Secret Island, Piper at the Gate, The Quicksand Pony, The Snow Pony
| Author | Miles Franklin |
| ISBN | 1600963781 |
"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must take a job as a governess to a local family to which her father...
| Author | Alan Marshall |
| ISBN | 0143003046 |
I first read Alan Marshall's autobiography of his childhood - I Can Jump Puddles (1955) as part of the school curriculum in early high school. I loved the bighearted story of overcoming adversity then, but wasn't sure what to expect when I reread it as part of the Popsugar 2016 book challenge (a book your...
| Author | Ethel Turner |
| ISBN | 1428041451 |
19th century Australia: Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarried a much younger young woman to provide his six children with a new mother. Together, they had another child, making seven. The Captain felt it was necessary to run the family with army discipline, but his rules...
| Author | Garry Kilworth |
| ISBN | 0044406150 |
Well, I sure hope I can do justice to this.
Hunter's Moon is an allegory of emotion biting, realistic proportions. This is animal fiction at it's prime; adult, realistic and competent. Garry Kilworth absolutely nails personification here. Unlike a portion of animal related books, these...
| Author | Colin Dann |
| ISBN | 1405225521 |
A group of forest animals unite to help each other to safety in this classic tale of tolerance, cooperation, survival, and friendship. When bulldozers enter Farthing Wood, the animals must escape before their homes are destroyed. They promise to stick together and protect each other—but then they...
| Author | Erin Hunter |
| ISBN | 0061980978 |
Two healthy kits have just been born in Riverclan--Oakkit and Stormkit. The whole Clan rejoices, and no cat is more pleased than their mother, who immediately recognizes her kits' innate skill and bravery.
But when tragedy befalls Stormkit and he is permanently disfigured, his mother renames...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 1841351415 |
What I realize about The Secret Island is the juxtaposition of being grounded (in reality) and escapism. The harsh, bleak, unkind, hopeless, scary, and tantalizing reality and situation of the four kids - Jack, Peggy and Nora and (?) Peter are both impossible and easy to solve. Heaven is just a secret...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
| Author | Alison Lester |
| ISBN | 1863739319 |
'Biddy, I'm sorry, we're going to have to leave her.'
'What?' Biddy struggled out of the quicksand. 'You can't leave her! The tide's coming in. She'll drown!'
But the pony is trapped and Biddy is forced to go on without her. The next day the only signs of Bella area hoofprints in the sand...with...
| Author | Alison Lester |
| ISBN | 0618771255 |
Three years of drought have reduced the Riley's farm to a dirt patch and strained the family to breaking point. Dusty's only consolation is her wild and beautiful horse, the Snow Pony. Together they seem unstoppable. A trip to the mountain's to muster the family's cattle promises a fresh start, but when...
| Author | Sulari Gentill |
| ISBN | 1921997435 |
The black sheep of a wealthy grazier dynasty, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair often takes matters into his own hands. When the matter is murder, there are consequences.
For nearly fourteen years, Rowland has tried to forget, but now the past has returned.
A newly-discovered gun...
