Winnie the Horse Gentler

Just as Christmas arrives, Winnie learns an unforgettable lesson about sacrificial love and God's Christmas gift to the world. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

"Stay right where you are! I'll explain everything when I get there! I need you desperately, Winnie Willis! Nobody has ever needed Winnie before. But she already has a big problem of her own. The newborn foal has lost her mother, and the world doesn't look friendly. Winnie knows how the filly feels. It's been two years since Winnie lost her mom, and she still has trouble trusting humans. So why should the foal trust her? But time is running out. Then Sal, a classmate, arrives with a little surprise-and a lesson about friendship that Winnie will never forget. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure. In #2 Eager Star, Winnie learns something about people as well as horses when she begins to value the power of praise and encouragement. Dandi won her first writing contest as a 10-year-old tomboy. Her 50 words on "Why I Want to Be Batboy for the Kansas City A's" won first place, but the team wouldn't let a girl be batboy. It was her first taste of rejection. Since then, Dandi Daley Mackall has become an award-winning author of nearly 500 books for adults and children of all ages, with sales of 4 million copies in 22 countries. MY BOYFRIENDS' DOGS is now a Hallmark movie. THE SILENCE OF MURDER won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Her picture books range from rock and roll, ROCK AWAY GRANNY! to legends and history, like Legend of Ohio, Legend of Saint Nicholas, Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story, FLIPSIDE STORIES, showing the same story from different points of view. Awards include: Notable Book; Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People National Council of Social Studies; Children's Book Council; the Angel Award; Award of Excellence from Chicago Book Show; Christian Book of the Year; Mom's Choice Awards & Amelia Bloom Award. Eva Underground, Harcourt young adult novel, nominated ALA Best Book with starred reviews, awarded a Top Teen Read by New York Public Library, finalist for Ohioana Award, was based on the author's experiences behind the Iron Curtain. Love Rules was awarded Romantic Times' Top Pick. Middle-grade fiction, Larger-than-Life Lara, which teaches how to write, while tackling the problem of bullying, made the KY Bluegrass Award List, William Allan White Award list, KS, Delaware, and KY Children's Choice lists. Her Winnie the Horse Gentler series has sold over half a million books and Starlight Animal Rescue is a Gold Medallion finalist. Dandi received the Helen Keating Ott Award for distinguished contribution toward promoting high moral and ethical values in children and young adult literature. She also received the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2008 from the University of Missouri. Dandi is a national speaker, keynoting at conferences and Author events, and has made dozens of appearances on TV, including ABC, NBC, and CBS

"I couldn't let anyone know what I'd done. I'd worked so hard to gain their trust, I couldn't' risk losing it now." Winnie Willis has confidence to spare-on horseback that is. If only she could have the same self-assurance at school. When Winnie gets a dreaded school assignment, her whole world is affected. Worse, an accident on horseback shatters the one area of her life where everything was going fine. Now she''ll have to find the courage outside herself to face her classmates and the horse she let down. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure. In Unhappy Appy, Winnie misses her mom more than ever, and her dad has invited some new woman for Thanksgiving dinner. More than ever, Winnie needs God to open her eyes to see his hand at work. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure. In #1 Wild Thing, Winnie's fearful heart finally begins to trust God again as she tries to gentle the horse of her dreams, Wild Thing. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

Note to self: Sometimes life is so unfair. For people-and for horses. Winnie Willis has already answered eight horse e-mails for the Pet Help Line. Now she's stumped. She can't think of anything to tell someone whose biggest problem is that her parents care too much about her life. After all, Winnie's dad has been so tied up lately with his inventions and his "friend, " Madeline, that they've barely talked. When a buckskin disappears from the run-down Happy Trails stable, Winnie and friend Kaylee investigate-and find out what it truly means to be "part of a herd." Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that He can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure. #4 Midnight Mystery-It's up to Winnie to solve a mystery and save a circus horse. But Winnie faces her own mystery as she struggles to keep her family from changing and to hold on to things as they are. She'll learn to appreciate God, who never changes no matter what else may threaten. Dandi Daley Mackall is the award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. She visits countless schools, conducts writing assemblies, women events, and workshops across the United States, and presents keynote addresses at conferences and young author events. She is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows, blogs, podcasts, and TV. She has won awards for her writing, including the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature, the Edgar Award, two-time Mom's Choice Award, Reader's Choice Award, Christian book awards, and others–but she writes because she loves it. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Joe, children and grandchildren, and horses, dogs, cats, tortoise, turtle, and an occasional recovering squirrel, robin, raccoon, and more.