Wish for a Pony

"Wish for a Pony" is the first children's book written by Monica Edwards, published in 1947. It introduces her Romney Marsh series and the characters of Tamzin, Rissa, Meryon and Roger. The writer herself came to mildly dislike it and regard it as a primitive early work, but it remained consistently popular, probably because it is a quintessential example of the pony book genre (very popular in British children's literature for many years, but probably at its peak in the 1950s). It is different from most of the author's other works and in places is closer in tone to the subsequent books of the Pullein-Thompson sisters or Ruby Ferguson.