For the millions of girls--and the women they grow
into--who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who
spend more time in stables than stores, who know the
difference between a hock and the fetlock, comes a
sweet, charming, wise, obsessive celebration of the bond
between woman and horse. Written and illustrated by
Bonnie Timmons, the award-winning artist whose signature
squiggly style was seen every week on NBC's hit show
''Caroline in the City'' and is featured in places
ranging from ''The New York Times'' to ''Fortune 500''
advertising campaigns, ''Hold Your Horses'' is 144
full-color pages of irresistible pleasure and unexpected
horse sense. It starts with First Love, moving quickly
to Lessons, including the gallop: a gait so fast your
worries can't keep up, and jumping: just throw your
heart over first, and, of course, falling-otherwise
known as an unscheduled dismount. There are tips on
Buying One of These Things, plus the truth about Care
and Feeding. (The trick here is knowing how much your
horse weighs. Easy, really: 1. Weigh yourself. 2. Weigh
yourself holding the horse. 3. Subtract 1 from 2.) And
Horsekeeping Truths: A horse knows what you know. He
also knows what you don't know. Written out of a
lifelong love, ''Hold Your Horses'' gets to the heart of
the passion that horses inspire. Every horsewoman will
see herself in its pages. |
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