Gillian Baxter

Gillian Baxter (1938 – 22 March 2025) was a British writer of children's books.^[1] Her books were mainly pony books about horses, although one book, The Knightsgate Players, was about acting. Baxter also wrote under her married name "Gillian Hirst".^[2] Baxter died on 22 March 2025, at the age of 87.^[3]

Bibliography

• Horses and Heather (1956)
• Jump to the Stars (1957)
• Tan and Tarmac (1958)
• The Difficult Summer (1959)
• Ribbons and Rings (1960)
• The Stables at Hampton (1961)
• Horses in the Glen (1962)
• The Perfect Horse (1963)
• The Knightsgate Players [non-pony] (1964)
• The Team from Low Moor (1965)
• Special Delivery (1967)
• Pantomime Ponies (1969)
• Save the Ponies! (1971)
• Ponies by the Sea (1974)
• Ponies in Harness (1977)
• Ponies to the Rescue (1983)
• Bargain Horses (1992)

The books Pantomime Ponies, Save The Ponies and Ponies in Harness were later combined into one volume, simply entitled My Book of Pony Stories.