Hold Your Horses Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses...No Matter What (Gift book for adult horse-lovers)

by Timmons, Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9780761115366
• ISBN10: 0761115366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Summary

In this warm nuzzle of a read, Bonnie Timmons guides her fellow horse-people through the love, the lessons, the stuff, the muck, the shows -- and that ineffable joy of being one with a horse. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bonnie Timmons is an award-winning illustrator who drew all the cartoons for NBC's long-running hit Caroline in the City. Her editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Outside, and other national magazines and newspapers, and she has done print and animated campaigns for AT&T, McDonald's, Quilted Northern, Land's End, and other companies. She lives on a farm outside of Philadelphia, with her husband and a personal menagerie that includes an ever-changing cast of horses.

Table of Contents

First Love: All about falling in love with very large, fuzzy things that snort	p. 1
Lessons: The teacher is bigger than you. So is the horse. Listen to them	p. 11
Continuing Education: When trotting in a circle just isn't enough	p. 33
Buying a Horse: Looks aren't everything, and other crucial discoveries	p. 53
Buying The Rest: A look at other uses for your spare change	p. 67
Care and Feeding: Hey. These things don't come with instruction manuals. Now what?	p. 79
Truths and Consequences: What you must do; what you get to do	p. 95
What it's All About: Where happy endings end just so, after an iffy beginning, and an often distressing middle	p. 113
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