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
358844
Gainesville, FL 32635
Phone:
352-226-9009
MiniHorseTherapy@att.net
Rainbow in a
huddle with two time Super Bowl champion and Super Bowl MVP
quarterback Phil Simms.
Hugh Jackman
talks about Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses on
stage during his amazing Broadway show.
"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!"
Jon Provost, Appeared as Timmy Martin on Lassie
Cloudburst wins Martha
Stewart's Annual Halloween Photo Contest! Martha talked about
Gentle Carousel on her website and Twitter. Thank you Martha!
Cloudburst on People
Magazine website.
"...Gentle Carousel, you are wonderful, gentle, caring
people! "
Marlo Thomas,Actress,
producer, best selling author, four-time Emmy winner
and activist for children's causes
A photo of Peanut and Aladdin
were on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and her website home page.
Who doesn't love Ellen!
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.
Rainbow with THE
DUKES OF HAZZARD star Tom Wopat.
Sundance
reading at a Boys and Girls Club with former NFL and University of
Florida quarterback Doug Johnson for an Associated Press
photo and literacy poster.
Gentle Carousel
was selected a charity partner in Disney's volunteer program
"Give a Day. Get a Day."
As
Seen in:
"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."
William
J. Bennett,
Former
Secretary of Education
James Gurney,
Best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series.
"Gentle Carousel... Thank you for all of your hard work!"
Joan Lundon,
Journalist, author and television host
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.
"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, #1 New York
Times Bestselling author and NASA engineer
"What you have to get across is that these are highly
trained horses. They go into an environment, a
situation, circumstances where only a trained horse such
as this can navigate himself... They seem to have an innate sense of how to go to the
person they are there to comfort."
Ilene
Silverman, Executive producer and host of the The Ilene
Silverman Show.
"...I think
that the use of horses is wonderful for children with
self-regulation and attachment issues (the classic
problems with so many children in the CPS system as you
are aware)...Keep up your work. With
Respect"
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.Senior Fellow
The Child Trauma Academy
"...I just wanted to take the opportunity to write you a
letter expressing my amazement with your miracle
miniature horse "Magic". As I read about all the
miraculous things that have happened in her presence, I
was absolutely stunned. It is amazing that despite the
modern marvels of medicine and how much that field has
advanced in my lifetime, that sometimes there remains an
unexplained element to health and recovery that is
covered by miraculous creatures like your horse..."
Senator Steve Oelrich
"Magic and Gentle Carousel, Inspiring children to read is magical. You are making
a difference!"
Chris Soentpiet, Acclaimed children's book author and
illustrator (Thank you for the beautiful artwork you donated
to help Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic!)
"My own daughter, who has Down Syndrome has been
touched by Magic. I have been able to see first hand what
these animals can do just with my own child...This program
benefits so many different population bases. They can reach
the elderly, the terminally ill, children with developmental
disabilities, children with needs in reading...there are
just so many opportunities to reach so many people in
need..."
Lance Block, Chairman for the Governor's Commission on Disabilities
"What 'Reading Is Magic' does for kids by going into
schools and igniting excitement for reading a story is beyond
compare. Keep the hoof beats going."
Carl Joseph, author and Hall of Fame
athlete
"What an honor
and thrill to have Gentle Carousel's Sundance as a riveting character in JASON AND ELIHU."
Shelley Fraser Mickle,
Award winning author and National Public Radio commentator
Sundance smiles
for a fan then kisses one of his photos in the novel JASON AND ELIHU
as an autograph.
