No Mistaking Corker

No Mistaking Corker

Author	Monica Edwards
Illustrator	Anne Bullen
Cover artist	Anne Bullen
Language	English
Genre	Young-adult fiction
Publisher	Collins
Published	1947
Followed by	Black Hunting Whip

No Mistaking Corker is a novel by Monica Edwards, published in 1947 by Collins. It contained the same characters as the Punchbowl Farm series of books but was written before the purchase of Punchbowl Farm. The book tells the story of the four Thornton children and their father who go for a gypsy caravan holiday in Dorset while their mother convalesces from an appendix operation. Their carthorse Bonny is mistaken for a fair horse—the eponymous Corker—and the mix-up leads to the rescue of three stolen polo ponies.

Blurb from First Edition

Which of the brown cart-horse mares was really Corker, is the mystery that runs through this story of a caravan journeying to the sea. Lindsey keeps the log of the family's wandering, and it is good to read because it is about such real people. They think and say and do all the mad and surprising things that people say and do when they are on holiday and when they are happy. Everyone who has spent long days in the country will enjoy this book because although, like all good holidays theirs is full of unplanned excitements, Lindsey does not forget to record the more ordinary things like eating picnic meals, running across wet early morning meadows, and sleeping under the stars.

Subsequent editions

• Second edition - 1948
• 6/- edition - 1956
• Collins Seagull Library - 1962 (8/6 edition)
• Armada paperback - 1965
• Vanguard Book of Ponies and Riding (with two other novels) - 1966 ^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Publication history from Parks, Brian. The Monica Edwards Punchbowl Companion
2. ^ Publication history on official website