Riding into Adventure: The Black Stallion Books
Walter Farley was one of American’s most treasured writers of adventure for young readers. His Black Stallion books—featuring the magnificent, half-wild stallion known as the Black and his offspring—the colts Satan, Bonfire and Black Storm and the fillies Black Minx and Black Sand—have sold over a hundred million copies in the last 60 years.

Collecting Alf Wight: “A Right Decent Feller”
Alf Wight was a simple country veterinarian who, in 1970, at the age of 54, published a little book about his life in Yorkshire and changed the world (or, at least, one small corner of it.) Ask a reader today about Wight’s books and you are likely to get a blank stare. Ask that same reader if he or she has ever read James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small and you are likely to get a different answer.

It’s Christmas Crime
Somehow, violence seems more shocking when juxtaposed against a Christmas holiday setting, a fact mystery writers haven’t overlooked. We survey some of the books found in the evil Santa’s bag. “Slaybells ring, are you listening? In the lane, gore is glistening…”

Gather & Bind:
The Fundamentals of Book Collecting
Part Nine: Protecting My Investment III – Storage

Books into Film
Whistle down the Wind, a novella by Mary Hayley Bell, a film by Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes.