Big Guy - Ryker, Celia
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A coloring activity book for all ages featuring Big Guy, a retired show horse, with his horse and human friends from the middle grade novel "Big Guy: A School Horse Story" by Celia Ryker, illustrated by Kathy Connell. Big Guy is a big horse dealing with big changes. His looks and talent have helped him win blue ribbons at the biggest horse shows in the country. But when old age and injury make him unfit for winning prizes, his owner retires him to a position as a school horse, giving riding lessons to children. At the school horse barn, Big Guy meets Shorty, Kaiser, Slippy and many other…mehr

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A coloring activity book for all ages featuring Big Guy, a retired show horse, with his horse and human friends from the middle grade novel "Big Guy: A School Horse Story" by Celia Ryker, illustrated by Kathy Connell. Big Guy is a big horse dealing with big changes. His looks and talent have helped him win blue ribbons at the biggest horse shows in the country. But when old age and injury make him unfit for winning prizes, his owner retires him to a position as a school horse, giving riding lessons to children. At the school horse barn, Big Guy meets Shorty, Kaiser, Slippy and many other horses who teach him about running in wide open fields and being part of a herd. He also meets Little Lisa, the smallest rider with the biggest heart. These line drawings leave room for plenty of imagination and tell the story of Big Guy's horse adventures!
Autorenporträt
Celia's first career was with horses. She trained horses and taught students on Southeast Michigan's hunter jumper circuit for more than thirty years. The characters in this book, horse and human, are based on people and animals she has known.Her second career sent her back to school to study gardening fine arts and landscape design. They were not just careers, they were passions and when life left room for a new passion she began to distance hike. Celia has kept journals and written short stories and poems all of her life. She has attended classes at local universities and writing seminars and has written articles for newsletters, local newspapers, and The Vermont League of Writers; she has been working on her craft for decades.