Horse Gentler in Training

by Dandi Daley Mackall, Phyllis Harris (Illustrator)

Overview

Now younger readers can saddle up and join Winnie and her family at the Willis Wyoming Ranch!
Winnie is the star of the bestselling Winnie the Horse Gentler series that sold more than half a million copies and taught kids around the world about faith, kindness, and horse training. Winnie could ride horses before she could walk, but training them is another story. In this new series, eight-year-old Winnie learns the fine art of horse gentling from her horse wrangler mom as they work together to save the family ranch.

When Winnie’s snobby classmate threatens to stop boarding his champion thoroughbred Princess at the Willis family ranch, Winnie has to come up with a tricky solution to convince him to let her stay. She learns that with God, all things are possible!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496432803
Publisher:	Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date:	10/09/2018
Series:	Winnie: The Early Years , #1
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,090,827
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Dandi Daley Mackall is the author of numerous books for children, including Larger-Than- Life Lara. She lives in West Salem, Ohio, with her husband and their three children.

Read an Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

How Not to Catch a Princess

"Hang on, Winnie!" Mom shouts into the wind as Chief, our sleepy plow horse, plods on.

I wrap my arms around Mom's waist. We're riding double. Bareback. I know what's coming.

Chief trots, making us bounce on his broad back. Then he breaks into a slow canter. He's the oldest horse on the Willis Wyoming Ranch. I love our ranch, so I can't stop thinking about the argument I overheard last night:

"Jack, we can't lose the ranch!" Mom said. "We need to hold on and pray."

"Prayer won't pay the bills, Emily," Dad said.

We board horses, and Mom gentles them. Other trainers "break" horses, sometimes in cruel ways. Not Mom. She is so good with horses you'd think she was one. It's their owners we have trouble with.

More than anything on earth, I want to be a horse gentler like Mom.

"Uh-oh." Mom eases Chief to a walk.

Mr. Green and his son Austin are in our pasture. Mr. Green is wearing green pants and a green shirt. I've never seen him in any other color. Austin is eight, like his twin, Simon. And me.

Mr. Green runs toward Royal Princess, their new champion Thoroughbred. The mare's deep-brown coat shines in the sunlight.

Princess keeps munching grass until Mr. Green is a horse's tail away. Then she trots to the far end of the pasture. "Come back here!" he cries.

"I'll get that horse!" Austin shouts.

Mom slides off Chief and whispers, "Winnie Willis, in the beginning God created heaven and earth and horses. And sometimes I have to wonder if the good Lord shouldn't have quit while he was ahead."

(Continues…)

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Copyright © 2018 Dandi A. Mackall.
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 How Not to Catch a Princess, 1,
CHAPTER 2 Teaching Moments, 5,
CHAPTER 3 Catch Me If You Can, 9,
CHAPTER 4 Lizzy's Lizard, 13,
CHAPTER 5 Monday, Monday — Not a Fun Day, 19,
CHAPTER 6 Big Talker, 25,
CHAPTER 7 Ride 'Em, Cowgirl?, 31,
CHAPTER 8 Ouch!, 41,
CHAPTER 9 Very Tricky, 47,
CHAPTER 10 Trick or Treat, 53,
CHAPTER 11 Try, Try Again, 61,
CHAPTER 12 Disappearing Act, 65,
CHAPTER 13 All's Well That Ends Well, 73,
MY TRUE HORSE STORY, 77,
FUN HORSE FACTS, 79,
HORSE TERMS, 83,
COMMON HORSE BREEDS, 85,
PARTS OF THE HORSE, 91,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, 93,