If you love ponies and horses, you will find this book heart-warming, fun and instructional. Join Jayme as she receives a black filly for her birthday and learns literally from the ground up how to halter break and eventually show her pony. Her younger sister, Kelly, is chomping at the bit for her very own pony and finally receives a sorrel miniature horse. Their parents had strict rules for both of them when they were around the ponies so they wouldn't get hurt, but sometimes in the excitement of the moment they would forget--endangering themselves and their ponies. Between the ponies, pranks and their little brother, Mike, they led a life that was anything but boring.
This book is meant to show children the fun, and work, it takes to own, train and show horses. It goes beyond just the story line as it offers information and instructions as to how to go about this. It also shows that you don't need a lot of money to own a really wonderful horse or pony.
Excerpt
... "Daddy, Mommy, she feels like a peach, so fuzzy, and she is so, so soft. Come here everyone, feel her face, feel her nose, feel her neck, feel her side, feel her..."
"Jayme Lynn," I tried to talk as lowly but as sternly as I could so as not to spook the filly...
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