Lucy and Libby

Lucy and Libby Horses on road in Bulgaria

My name is Libby and I’m a pony. I live in Bulgaria, a country in Europe to the north of Greece. The picture above shows me on the left and my mother Lucy behind me. She had to work that day and my father had to stay on the farm pulling a plow. I didn’t really want to go with her because I’d rather run in the field with my cousin Daniel. That brick side road makes such a loud clicking sound when we walk on it and it’s so hard!

When I grow up I want to pull a cart like my mother does. I think that’s a lot more fun that pulling a plow because fields look the same month after month and year after year. When you pull a cart, you get to go to all different places. Three times I’ve gone with my mother to the village where my grandmother lives. She kisses me a lot but she always shares her apples with me. Once she shared a pear with me and that was so sweet! I wish our farmer grew them.

I wish the human that took this picture had come home with me. Then you could see a picture of the field where I run. You could also see my stall in the barn. I’ve got the best stall in the barn. It’s in a corner and there’s a little window where you can see the mountains and part of my field!

If you come to visit me in Bulgaria, I’ll let you ride on my back! I’m eating lots of carrots and hay so in another year I’ll probably be able to carry forty or even fifty humans on my back! And I’ll carry you to the mountain side near my field or maybe carry you in the cart to a city so you can eat some delicious Bulgarian food and dance to the beautiful music that the humans like to make!

Libby the pony Anagram

Below are pairs of clues about Libby the pony and a few other things about her life in Bulgaria. The word described by the first clue is almost the same as the word the second clue describes – there’s only one letter that is different.

  1. Libby is just a pony but her mother is a full-grown ____________
  2. The owners of Libby and Lucy live in a big, stone   ____________

 

  1. This three letter word describes Libby’s main food ____________
  2. Because it’s the main food Libby eats, she has it every _________
  3. Libby shares the barn with these animals that produce wool ____________
  4. Every evening Libby is returned to her stall where she goes to   __________

 

  1. Libby often goes with her mother as she pulls a cart down the __________
  2. Usually when Lucy pulls the cart, inside the cart is a heavy _____________

 

  1. Libby is just a pony; it’s only been a few months since she was __________
  2. The building where Libby and Lucy have their stall is called a ____________