" Gentle Carousel 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

Reading Is Magic in the News!

Magic receiving grant check from Walmart for Reading Is Magic program.

Rainbow on television.

"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. 

 Caliente wins Gainesville Sun Photography Contest.

Professional baseball player Jon Townsend of the Los Angeles Angels has supported Gentle Carousel on our therapy visits.

See our Gentle Carousel horses in this Miniature Horse World Magazine.

Therapy Horse Stardust is the "Horse of The Month" at Green Horn Horse Facts.

Also see the Gentle Carousel interview:

Therapy Horse Stardust won First Place in the American Miniature Horse Association OH What A Beautiful Baby Photo Contest. 

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

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

"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

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!

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.

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

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

 Reading Is Magic is designed to encourage 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.

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

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

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