Reading with Ruby
Now that you’ve read Ruby’s story, you might like to read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which is also available as a Vintage Classics book. You can find out why Magda and Ruby like it so much, and why it’s nice to have a secret garden of your own.
It’s the story of Mary Lennox, who is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle. Everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine ...
Also by Catherine Bateson
For Younger Readers
Being Bee
Rain May and Captain Daniel
Millie and the Night Heron
Magenta McPhee
Hanging Out
Mimi and the Blue Slave
For Young Adults
A Dangerous Girl
The Year It All Happened
Painted Love Letters
The Airdancer of Glass
His Name in Fire
Poetry
The Vigilant Heart
Marriage for Beginners
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The Wish Pony
Copyright © Catherine Bateson
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A Vintage Classic Children’s book
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First published by Woolshed Press in 2008
This edition published by Vintage Classic Children’s in 2012
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Author: Bateson, Catherine
Title: The wish pony [electronic edition] / Catherine Bateson
ISBN: 978 1 74274 116 1 (ebook)
Target Audience: For primary school age.
Dewey Number: A823.3
Cover illustration by Sarah Kate Mitchell
Cover design by Astred Hicks, www.designcherry.com
Internal design by Stella Danalis, Peripheral Vision Design
Typeset by Stella Danalis and Midland Typesetters, Australia
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