The Silver Pony

(1973)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

Inks

Lynd Ward (credited)

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Characters

The Silver Pony

Keywords

Pony; winged horse

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The Silver Pony

Keywords

Pony; winged horse

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Hardbound cover

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Silver Pony

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Half-title page

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"The Silver Pony" (Table of Contents: 7)

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Title page, front matter, second half-title page

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[1] (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Boy; father; mother; the Silver Pony

Synopsis

A boy's mind wanders as he does his farm chores, until a winged silver pony alights to earth. The boy rushes to tell his father, who spanks him when there is no pony to be seen.

Keywords

Dream; pantomime; pony; winged horse; wordless

[2] (Table of Contents: 10)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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fantasy-supernatural

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Boy; mother; the Silver Pony; Eskimo (or Inuit) boy

Synopsis

The mother sets the boy to picking apples. When the Silver Pony reappears the boy mounts and they fly far across the world. He sees men hard at work, and an Eskimo boy hunting for seals. He tosses the boy an apple from his tree.

Keywords

Dream; pantomime; pony; winged horse; wordless

[3] (Table of Contents: 11)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Boy; the Silver Pony; black child

Synopsis

The boy and the Silver Pony fly over a region of terrible flooding. They tow a rowboat to a black child stranded on a roof. With the boat he not only escapes but sets off to rescue others.

Keywords

Dream; flood; pantomime; pony; winged horse; wordless

[4] (Table of Contents: 12)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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fantasy-supernatural

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Boy; the Silver Pony; city girl; girl in lighthouse

Synopsis

The boy cuts sunflowers, flies to the city and showers them on a young girl on a roof with pigeon coops. He flies to the sea, and hands one to a girl feeding gulls at a lighthouse.

Keywords

Dream; lighthouse; pantomime; pony; winged horse; wordless

[5] (Table of Contents: 13)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Boy; the Silver Pony; Navajo shepherd boy

Synopsis

The boy and the pony travel to the American southwest, where they spy a Navajo boy searching for a lost lamb. The boy on the Silver Pony snatches the lamb from the pounce of a mountain lion, and returns it to the shepherd.

Keywords

Cougar; dream; mountain lion; Navajo; pantomime; pony; winged horse; wordless

[6] (Table of Contents: 14)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Boy; the Silver Pony

Synopsis

The boy rises from his bed at night, still in his pajamas, and rides away with the flying pony. The pony ascends high toward the moon, to the very edge of space. But there the sky is crowded with satellites, missiles, and bombs. They blast the Silver Pony from the sky, and the boy plunges toward the earth.

Keywords

Dream; pantomime; pony; space travel; winged horse; wordless

[7] (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Lynd Ward (credited)

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Boy; father; mother; doctor; pony

Synopsis

The parents find the pajama-clad boy unconscious on the lawn, and their doctor rushes to the scene. Once the boy regains consciousness his mother cares for him until the father brings home an appaloosa foal. Without saddle or bridle, the boy and his steed ride wild and free.

Keywords

Dream; horse; pantomime; pony; wordless

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Each of the 88 story pages (sequences 8-14) is backed by a blank page, with three more following.

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Lynd Ward (credited)

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Back cover