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LOVE IS... Magic and Rainbow's New Children's Book

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Magic Horses Poem

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2009 Magic of Horses

MAGIC

RAINBOW

ANGEL

SUNDANCE

 ALADDIN

ILLUSION

 CHAPS

CIRCUS

PEANUT

ROCKET

FLAME

DURANGO

SPARKLE

TUMBLEWEED

ECLIPSE

STARLIGHT

MILKY WAY

COMET

WHISTLE

FEATHER

BRIGHTY

MOONBEAM

STARDUST

DREAMER

SPLASH

SCOUT

PRINCE

KALLIOPE

BANNER

CONTENDER

RAIN DANCE

SHADOW

SILVER

GERARD

DONKEY OTIE

MAGIC MAN'S ON DEMAND

The Future Of Gentle Carousel Where will the next Rainbow and Magic come from?

Contact Us

Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

Your donations are tax deductible. Help us grant wishes, make memories and bring a little magic into the world.

Gentle Carousel Inc.

P.O. Box 1672

High Springs, FL  32655

Phone: 352-226-9009

MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

Magic selected Most Heroic Pet In America. See her in AARP the Magazine.

Gentle Carousel in Woman's World magazine.

Gentle Carousel was selected a charity partner in Disney's volunteer program "Give a Day. Get a Day."

 

Sundance reading at a Boys and Girls Club with former NFL and University of Florida  quarterback Doug Johnson for an Associated Press photo.

 

   What an honor and thrill to have Gentle Carousel's Sundance as a riveting character in JASON AND ELIHU.-Shelley Fraser Mickle

" Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

Your Reading Is Magic program and volunteers are heroes every time they walk into a school or library.  Using little miniature horses to inspire young children to read is most creative.  Congratulations on your wonderful charity, spirit and service to your community.

- Bill Bennett " Former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett

"Keep up the wonderful work you do.  I often tell people that Lassie was the first therapy dog--the first to be allowed in hospitals more than 50 years ago!      

Best, Jon " Jon Provost - Appeared as Timmy Martin on Lassie

Canine movie star Benji working with Magic.

"What they are doing is just so incredible.  They are making a difference. These people are the real deal.  They are down there in the trenches doing it."

 -Joe Camp

  Film writer, producer, director, bestselling author and man behind canine superstar Benji.

"What 'Reading Is Magic' does for kids by going into schools and igniting excitement for reading a story is beyond compare.  Keep the hoofbeats going."

Carl Joseph, Author of SOME CALLED ME SUPERSTAR

 

"Reading Is Magic!

Every child you inspire to read is a life forever changed. Thank you for that and for bringing books to life...It can take you from outer space to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Either way, the journey is magical.

...Wow.  Love those little horses... Great job you're doing.  I'm proud of you." 

-Homer Hickam

Magic appearing on The Ilene Silverman Show.

 

James Gurney

Best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series.

 

 Magic with four-time Olympian and ten-time US Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year, Karen O'Connor.

 

Magic with  David O'Connor, president of the United States Equestrian Federation, Olympic gold medalist and Pan American Games and World Equestrian Games medalist.

 

"Magic and Gentle Carousel,

    Inspiring children to read is magical. You are making a difference!"

 Chris Soentpiet - Acclaimed children's book author and illustrator

Professional baseball player Jon Townsend of the Los Angeles Angels visiting children with Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses and University of Florida football players at a camp for children with cancer.

"To Magic and Gentle Carousel-

 You have a wonderful program. Thank you for bringing joy to children... Keep reading! It is magic!"

-Anna Grossnickle Hines, author and illustrator of over 50 children's books.

"...Thank you for all the work you do.

...Reading is Magic!"

- Linda Sue Park

Newbery Medal Winner

 

Gentle Carousel on television.

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Gentle Carousel's

Reading Is Magic

 

Visit Our Reading Is Magic Website:  www.ReadingIsMagic.org

 LIBRARY PROGRAM   READING IS MAGIC HORSES

SUPPORT FROM AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS

 

   Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses with the help of "Magic" and friends bring real horses inside classrooms, libraries and at risk youth programs to inspire young readers.  Young children who have rich language and literacy experiences are less likely to have difficulties learning to read.

 

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"What’s better than a tiny horse in your classroom?

 I feel like anyone who meets the horses will never forget it.  I really feel like the children will tell their children about the little horses that came in their classroom.  I feel like it’s that big.

It’s just so beautiful, so big hearted, such a perfect marriage of the therapy aspect along with some kind of magical element that you just can’t really describe."

Diane Colson

 Senior Library Manager, Youth Services Coordinator for the Alachua County Library District.

 

 The horses in Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program look like the horse characters in loved children's books.

 

A visit from "Flame" as The Island Stallion.

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic received the 2009 Literacy Award from the Alachua County Literacy Network (with Terri Hutchinson, Literacy Coordinator of Alachua County Library District and Gainesville mayor Pegeen Hanrahan) for Outstanding Contribution To Literacy.

 

Making new friends at a Reading Is Magic program at Newberry Elementary School on the first day of school.  In order to participate in the program, teachers must commit to read books from the Reading Is Magic Book List to their students everyday.  When students finish books the horse “characters” visit the classroom, bringing the books to life!

 

Sundance, star of the popular children's novel JASON AND ELIHU, visits an elementary school.

Magic at Trenton Elementary School .

Eclipse at High Springs Community School as "Little Black".

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic Program in the news.

"Milky Way"  and Magic on at another Reading Is Magic event.

 

Below Magic accepts a grant from Walmart for the Reading Is Magic program.

Magic in front of a television camera at a Reading Is Magic event.

 

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program at Head Start.

A real horse inside a library or classroom is always a magical experience.  Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program provides books, enrichment activities, educational coloring books, bookmarks, certificates, posters, lesson plan materials, author book signings and book readings with our horses to preschools, elementary schools and libraries.

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program at Pre Kindergarten.

 Reading Is Magic encourages children and their parents to read together, teachers to read to their students and children to be inspired to read their own books. 

 

 

  Reading Is Magic has a special focus on struggling or at risk readers.  Poor readers are at increased risk for dropping out of school, substance abuse, delinquency and poverty.

 

A visit from "Brighty" of Brighty of the Grand Canyon.

 

"The Black Stallion" arrives.

 

Photo by Aaron Daye/Staff photographer-Gainesville Sun

"Jenna Davis, 2, reacts to being tickled by Magic, a 2-foot-tall miniature horse provided by Gentle Carousel."

    

Rainbow at the Family Literacy Festival (Gainesville Sun newspaper).

 

Reading Is Magic at First Steps Fall Festival (Gainesville Sun newspaper).

Reading Is Magic at The Alachua Branch Library (The Observer newspaper).

 

Reading Is Magic at an elementary school (The Observer newspaper).

 

Reading Is Magic at Metcalfe Elementary School.

Magic Way

A smidgen of fairy dust magic added to the lesson of the day

 and sprinkled wherever children play

can create a spark like fairies do whenever they appear to you

and days so drear for children who just want to play

 will learn instead in the magic way.

  -Written for Therapy Horse Magic by Joyce "Mother Gator" LeBlanc

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program is grateful for it's partnership with Barnes & Noble Booksellers. 

Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

Your donations are tax deductible.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill

 

Gentle Carousel Inc.

P.O. Box 1672

High Springs, FL  32655

Phone: 352-226-9009

E-mail: MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

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