Whether you have a horse, want a horse, or      
     just love to read about horses, this book will 
    gallop-o-gallop away with your heart. 

    Get swept into Sandra Alonzo's twenty-one
    poems all about horses, plus pages and
    pages of Kelly Murphy's dazzling drawings.

    From palominos to buckskins, grooming to 
    jumping, icky sneezing to wild stampeding,
    Gallop-O-Gallop celebrates the very special
    friendship we share with these lovely animals,
    and invites you to come along for the ride!
         
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                                             more about books   .   .   .       
                                                   
                                             I have always loved to read.                                 

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                                                                                                        Sandra Alonzo at age fifteen                                     
                                                                          
                                        A few books I treasured as a kid (and now!)
                                                              Grammie's Book                                
    This publication is part of an educational 
    series that came out in 1967.  The author of 
    WHERE IS WHIFFEN? and many others 
    in the series was Ruth Jaynes, my grandmother.

    My grandmother encouraged me to write
    and to become an author.  "Listen to people,"
    she told me.  "Write about what they say.
    If it rains, listen to the sound of the drops
    falling on the roof.  Write about that sound.
    Never give up on your writing."
          



                      
      Marguerite Henry is one of my favorite authors. 
      I read most of her horse books, and especially loved
      MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE.  
                                    
      Another Marguerite Henry favorite of mine:
               ALBUM OF HORSES.
       It's filled with beautiful horse paintings.
       As a child I used to dream about 
       which breeds I would someday own.                           
                                                                                                         
                                                                                         
       
         


                                                                                    THE GOLDEN EGG BOOK
BLACK BEAUTY                                                             by Margaret Wise Brown
A timeless classic that                                                  
still brings on a few tears.                                                       Once there was a little bunny. 
And it's a great movie, too.                                            He was all alone.   One day he found an egg
 Perfect for horse  lovers!                                    He could hear something moving inside the egg. What was it?                  
                                           
                                                                                                                               
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
Beatrix Potter entertained me again and again.
Peter Rabbit reminds me of me.          :                                                                                
       
                                                           READ!!!!