Heidi S Horse

This study is a visual ride through the primary motifs of human art. Examples show how certain basic patterns reappear, time and again, all over the world. It tries to answer the question why prehistoric art, tribal art, child art and modern art have so many design elements in common.

K.I.C.K. Your Fear of Horses is a guide to help those who are plagued with horse fear get back in the saddle and ride with confidence. The book is based on the authors personal experience as well as the journey of three women who also went from fear into confident horsemanship. The author, Heidi A. McLaughlin, hopes that this book will help others gain the confidence they need to find true joy in the saddle. The book quotes the advice from many accomplished experts such as Chris Cox (who also wrote the Foreword), Stacy Westfall, Richard Winters, Karen Scholl, Mike Kevil, Steve Halfpenny, Dr. Robert M. Miller and Rick Lamb. Heidi explains the meaning of K.I.C.K. in great detail: Keep at it! Don't give up. Invest in a well-trained horse and good equipment Courage needed to gain Confidence. Knowledge needed to overcome the fear. And Heidi presents numerous practical hints to help get you on your way out of fear and into knowledge, which leads to confident riding....fearless riding! Her personal journey as well as her gift for writing makes this heart-warming "how to" book a must-read.

Ann Dougherty is horse crazy. All she's ever wanted was a horse of her own, but when she gets the chestnut mare Forever Amber for her eleventh birthday the first thing her new horse does is bite her. Afraid for his daughter, David Dougherty wants to sell Amber, but Ann refuses to give her up, determined to earn the respect of her horse, and of her father. Taming Amber is easy compared to winning over her father, who-seeing his daughter growing up and growing away on horseback-tries to control Ann through her horse. For ten years Amber is the center of an emotional tug-of-war until Ann is forced to make the decision that ends her childhood forever. Only then does she understand that no love is easy, not between a daughter and her father, not even between a girl and her horse. Heidi Furseth's mother insists that her daughter's first word was "horse," but that 's an exaggeration, of course. It was probably her third or fourth. Putting the "crazy" in horse crazy, the nine-year-old Heidi badgered her parents into moving to the country and buying her a horse, touching off a lifelong love affair with all things equine. Heidi now lives in a small western Washington town with her three horses, various cats, and a resident raven. When she's not working as a Microbiologist she divides her time between her two passions: riding and writing.

Horse Speak is not a training method or technique—it is a practical system for “listening” and “talking” to horses in their language, instead of expecting them to comprehend ours. Horse Speak can be used by anyone who works with horses, whether riding instructor, colt starter, recreational rider, or avid competitor. It promises improved understanding of what a horse is telling you, and provides simple replies you can use to tell him that you “hear” him, you “get it,” and you have ideas you want to share with him, too. The result? Time with your horse will be full of what horse trainer and equine-assisted learning instructor Sharon Wilsie of Wilsie Way Horsemanship calls Conversations, and soon the all-too-common misunderstandings that occur between horse and human will evolve into civil discussions with positive and progressive results! Learn Horse Speak in 12 easy steps; understand equine communication via breath and body language; and discover the Four Gs of Horse Speak: Greeting, Going Somewhere, Grooming, and Gone. Practice regulating your intensity, and sample dozens of ready-made Conversations with your horse, as step-by-step templates and instructional color photographs walk you through the eye-opening process of communicating on a whole new level.

A loving father carves carousel horses that represent members of his family as he saves money to bring them from Europe to America. This book is a work of historical fiction based on the stories of Jewish woodcarvers who came from the Old Country and turned their talents to carving carousel horses on Coney Island.

The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several theoretical perspectives before examining empirical data on the artwork of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally disturbed, and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism. The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World is intended for a broad readership of developmental psychologists, educational psychologists, clinical psychologists who use drawings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, anthropologists interested in art, art educators, and early childhood educators. It can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in child art offered in departments of psychology, art education, art history, and early childhood education.