Learn more about Susan Friedland-Smith, the author of Horses Adored and Men Endured. Read the book excerpt of Horses Adored and Men Endured written by Susan Friedland-Smith below.When I was a girl of 10, newly smitten with horse fever,...
Good news, fans of horses and children’s picture books! REAL COWBOYS, written by Kate Hoefler and illustrated by Jonathan Bean (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) has just galloped into bookstores and libraries near you.Today, most children don’t have exposure...
The lives of fictional characters in horse books may not always be realistic, but that’s part of the fun. Reading about the fantastic abilities of great riders in idealistic settings has inspired countless young readers to reach for the...
If you’re like most people, you enjoy a good book, but probably don’t have a whole lot of extra time to read. Even though it may seem like one more thing on your to-do list, why not make a...
Norman, originally called Alydeed’s Leader, started out as a racehorse. He was Alydeed’s son and a Northern Dancer descendent. He raced for seven years, starting 40 races, winning two. He placed second or third in several of them, according...
We all fondly remember reading Misty of Chincoteague, Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and King of the Wind. Those books are some of Marguerite Henry’s most popular and well-known stories.But there’s more to Marguerite Henry than just Misty. In...
Popularity is a capricious thing. There’s really no accounting for why Misty of Chincoteague became Marguerite Henry’s most popular novel, when she wrote so many equally wonderful horse stories. And there’s also no accounting for why dozens of books...
Nearly every horse enthusiast is familiar with the most well-known horse stories: Black Beauty, National Velvet, the Black Stallion series, Misty of Chincoteague, and King of the Wind, as well as modern favorites such as the Saddle Club series....
Like most horse crazy kids deprived of actual horse ownership, I read voraciously to fill the time in between riding lessons and summer horse camp sessions—every horse book the library had, I read several times over.Summer Pony by Jean...
Here are just a few of the horse books on my reading list of lifetime favorites, from childhood fiction to go-to reference guides. (Keep in mind that I grew up before the Internet and The Saddle Club existed!)Talking of...
