Bonnie Bryant

Author profile

gender

female

About this author

American author of children's books. She is best known for creating the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published from October 1988 until April 2001. The Saddle Club chronicled the adventures of thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood and twelve-year-olds Stephanie "Stevie" Lake and Carole Hanson. The series was static in time; the girls never aged in 101 books, 7 special editions, and 3 Inside Stories.

Bonnie Bryant also wrote two spin-off series: Pony Tails, aimed at beginning readers, and Pine Hollow, aimed at teenage readers. The 16 Pony Tails books followed the lives of eight-year-olds May Grover, Corey Takamura, and Jasmine James. Pine Hollow featured Carole, Lisa, Stevie, and their new friends in a series set four year...more American author of children's books. She is best known for creating the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published from October 1988 until April 2001. The Saddle Club chronicled the adventures of thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood and twelve-year-olds Stephanie "Stevie" Lake and Carole Hanson. The series was static in time; the girls never aged in 101 books, 7 special editions, and 3 Inside Stories.

Bonnie Bryant also wrote two spin-off series: Pony Tails, aimed at beginning readers, and Pine Hollow, aimed at teenage readers. The 16 Pony Tails books followed the lives of eight-year-olds May Grover, Corey Takamura, and Jasmine James. Pine Hollow featured Carole, Lisa, Stevie, and their new friends in a series set four years after The Saddle Club. Unlike The Saddle Club, Pine Hollow conformed to a realistic timeline. The 17 books took place over the span of less than a year. Later a television show called The Saddle Club, based on the books, was filmed in Australia.

Bonnie Bryant wrote at least 38 The Saddle Club books and 2 Pine Hollow books herself; after that they were taken over by a team of ghostwriters, a common practice in long-running children's book series. Ghostwriters for the Saddle Club and Pine Hollow books included Caitlin Macy (sometimes credited as Caitlin C. Macy), Catherine Hapka, Sallie Bissell, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Helen Geraghty, Tina deVaron, Cat Johnston, Minna Jung, and Sheila Prescott-Vessey.

Bonnie Bryant is also the author of many novelizations of movies, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Karate Kid, and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, written under her married name, B.B. Hiller. She also collaborated in the ghostwriting of The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #14: BSC in the USA, published under the name of its creator, Ann M. Martin.

Bonnie Bryant was born and raised in New York City. She met her husband, Neil W. Hiller, in college, where they both worked on the campus newspaper. They had two sons, Emmons Hiller and Andrew Hiller. Neil Hiller died in 1989. Many of Bonnie's books are dedicated to him.
***from wikipedia.org(less)

combine editions
Books by Bonnie Bryant

Average rating: 3.58 · 11,046 ratings · 218 reviews · 175 distinct works

	Horse Crazy (Saddle Club, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 752 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Horse Shy (Saddle Club, #2) 3.58 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Horse Sense (Saddle Club, #3) 3.58 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Horse Power (Saddle Club, #4) 3.56 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Dude Ranch (Saddle Club, #6) 3.70 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Starlight Christmas (Saddle Club, #13) 3.67 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Trail Mates (Saddle Club, #5) 3.48 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Riding Camp 3.62 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Horse Show (Saddle Club, #8) 3.54 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Horsenapped! (Saddle Club, #17) 3.50 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating: