It’s the old question – if you were stranded on a desert island what three things would you want to take with you?
Here’s my answer:
- A horse, of course.
- A very thick notebook.
- A very reliable pen.
With those three things I could be very happy. I would never be bored. Writers write and I am a writer. I always have been. Until very recently, the books you knew me by were training books for horses. But long before I wrote my first training book, “Clicker Training for your Horse”, I was writing children’s books. Three of them, the first in the Kenyon Bear Series were published in the late 1980’s. Then my life took a turn when I started to explore clicker training. I became fully absorbed in developing clicker training for horses.
For me writing about horses began with my personal training journals. For years I recorded every training session, every visit. I have stacks of notebooks recording the daily lessons. Those lessons weren’t so much what I was teaching my horses, but what I was learning from them.
Out of that grew the books, DVDs, blog posts, on-line courses, podcasts, conference presentations, etc. that you know me by today. That’s been a journey that has stretched over decades. I put the publication of children’s books on hold. My time and energy had to go towards clicker training. Horses need an alternative to the force-based, command-based methods that is the norm in the horse world. But I never stopped writing children’s books.
There are two more books in the Kenyon Bear Series. The next one will be published this fall. And then there is a new series which I am so eager to share. I’ll save the details of that for another time.
Over those decades many things have changed. When I wrote the first of the horse books, “Clicker Training for your Horse”, I always thought of it as my “space beacon”. “I’m here. Is anybody else out there who thinks about horses the way I do?”
It turns out there are a lot of people out there. They have helped spread clicker training around the planet.
The need is still great, but with more voices speaking out for horses, I can indulge in doing what writers do. They write.
And thanks to changes in the way books are printed and distributed, I can share what I write with you.
So I have just published the third book in the Kenyon Bear Series: Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted.
It is a book to be shared with the young readers in your life. It’s a chapter book with pictures. It is a great bed time story to read aloud to the little ones in your life. It is a book your young readers will treasure and read over and over again as they grow up.
It is filled with laughter, with fun, with scary times, with friends discovered, with adventures, with daring rescues and a happy, though bittersweet ending.
Sara’s Story is a perfect book for the summertime holidays. Keep your young readers reading with the Kenyon Bear Chapter Books.
To Learn More visit my web site: theclickercenter.com
You’ll find all three of the Kenyon Books there.
You can also order them through Amazon which saves on your shipping cost.
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