Big Guy A School Horse Story From YA Author Celia Ryker

For fans of Black Beauty and A Horse Named Sky, here's a new middle grade novel by award-winning author and former horse trainer Celia Ryker with illustrations by Kathy Connell. Big Guy: A School Horse Story is about a show horse who has big changes to face, and who learns that friendships can last beyond the time you share together.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. Uplifting, funny, and sweet, Big Guy is a simple story told from the horse's point of view that reads like a night under the stars, or an afternoon racing to a hay field. Big Guy is a middle-grade children’s novel. Big Guy faces big changes when his horse show career ends and he is moved to the school horse barn. The horse show circuit is the only life Big Guy has known. He will be used to teach inexperienced riders in a lesson program, and he sees this as a huge step down. He has watched the school horses out in their pasture from his private paddock and thought that they looked a little rough, with whiskers on their muzzles and hair sticking out of their ears. They’re groomed but not to the sheen of a show horse. He wonders what it will feel like to have hair protruding from his ears, but this is the least of his problems. Big Guy hasn’t been outside in a herd situation since he was very young and his social skills are found to be sadly lacking. He is beginning to get comfortable with his new friends and life as a school horse when it all falls apart. Big Guy is about accepting changes, making new friends, and dealing with the curves life sends your way. It is accompanied by a coloring book as well. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support .