Horse Play

<p>Welcome to the Clancy of the Outback series.</p><p><br></p><p>Eleven-year-old Clancy has been thrust into life out woop-woop. These are the stories of his outback adventures at his uncle's sheep station Overflow Station.</p><p><br></p><p>In this book Little Bill's insists on turning Clancy into a country boy teaching him how to ride a horse. How hard can that be? Little Bill turns up on a humungous bay horse and Clancy begins to wonder if he has bitten off more than he can chew. In the end Clancy gets a tiny mean-looking Shetland pony to learn to ride on. Just getting onto it was hard enough but in the end that pony and Clancy save the day!</p><p><br></p><p>At the conclusion of this book there is an Outback Facts section which provides information about Australian horses there is a A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson poem The Man from Snowy River and the all-important Outback Jokes section.</p><p><br></p><p>These chapter books were developed for 7-10-year-old independent readers who are starting on their first chapter books. They are high interest easy language level.</p>