A Friend for Frances

by P. M. Warner

Without a doubt, girls will enjoy this refreshing story because the characters about whom P. M. Warner writes are convincing, and the things that happen to them completely credible. As in a real-life friendship it so often happens that the partners could not resemble each other less, both in appearance and character, so it is with Deb and Pony. Frances, or Pony (because she has always been sturdy like a little pony), is short and dark and lives at Baggotts Farm. Deborah is fair and slender and lives at the Rectory. The two girls get to know each other on their first day as new girls at the High School. Nothing creates friends like a common enemy or a common affliction; and in this case, the common affliction is being obliged, through lack of family funds, to wear the wrong raincoats with the right raincoats. From there on the friendship goes from strength to strength.
P. M. Warner writes with great warmth and humour, and when girls have finished this "Deb and Pony" book, which is full of incident, it’s certain that they will look forward eagerly to the next one.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull 1962 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1962 with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1962