The Silver Pony

Lynd Ward’s The Silver Pony is a wordless picture-story from Houghton Mifflin, first published in 1973 as a single, self-contained volume. Ward, a master of the wood-engraved novel, crafts a gentle fantasy about a lonely farm boy who discovers a winged pony, using only his expressive black-and-white illustrations to tell the tale. It stands as a quiet, emotionally resonant example of the graphic novel form decades before the term was widely used.