Bonnie Bryant

Barbara "Bonnie" Bryant Hiller ( Bryant; born in New York, New York, in 1946) is an American author; as Bonnie Bryant she wrote many children's and young adult books; she is best known for writing the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published by Bantam Books from October 1988 until November 2001. She also wrote as B.B. Hiller. The Saddle Club books were Bryant's first books for Bantam-Skylark.

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Pony Tails Pony Tails is the first spin-off series authored by Bryant. It is aimed at beginning readers and follows the lives of eight-year-olds May Grover, Corinne "Corey" Takamura, and Jasmine James, who also ride at Pine Hollow. The first book was published in July 1995, and the last was published in February 1998.

Robert Brown and Fredericka Ribes provided the cover art for the Pony Tails books, and Marcy Ramsey provided the interior art for the books.

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Pine Hollow Pine Hollow is the second spin-off series written by Bryant. It is aimed at young adult readers and features Carole, Lisa, Stevie, and some new friends in a series set four years after the events of The Saddle Club. Unlike The Saddle Club, Pine Hollow conformed to a realistic timeline. The series took place over the span of less than a year. The "Pine Hollow" series focuses on The Saddle Club's teenage years.

The first book was published in July 1998, and Full Gallop, the seventeenth and last book, was published in April 2001. Although the last few Saddle Club books were published after Full Gallop, it is the last book set chronologically in the Willow Creek universe.

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Television series

In 2001, a television show called The Saddle Club, based on the books, was filmed in Australia. As of November 2010, three seasons have aired.

Ghostwriting Like many long-running children's book series, eventually The Saddle Club was taken over by a team of ghostwriters. Bryant wrote at least one hundred and one The Saddle Club books, six Pony Tails books, and two Pine Hollow books herself. 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.

Other books Bonnie Bryant is also the author of many novelizations of movies, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Karate Kid (and all of its sequels), Bingo and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, written under her married name, B.B. Hiller. Also, the novelization of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

Bryant 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.

Personal life Bonnie Bryant was born to Emmons and Metzer S. "Mary" Bryant, who are now deceased. Bryant was born raised in New York City, Neil Hiller died in 1989. Many of Bonnie's books are dedicated to him. She dated Irving Gottesman for about 7 years from 2000 to 2007, until his unfortunate death from cancer September 21, 2007. He had, from a previous marriage, two children named Max and Alice Gottesman.

Bryant has two sisters, Penelope "Penny" Bryant Carey, and Molly Bryant, now deceased. Bryant now lives in Greenwich Village, New York.