Hold Your Horses: Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses...No Matter What

by Bonnie Timmons

Book Overview

Celebrate the mysterious bond between horse and horse-lover.

The pleasure of whoa. The surprise of the "unscheduled dismount." And why, when jumping, to throw your heart over first. Drawing on her lifelong passion for horses and riding, award-winning artist Bonnie Timmons offers up a book full of whimsy and wisdom and a huge helping of giddy up.

These are the truths as recorded by an astute observer: Of little girls who spend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761115366
• ISBN13: 9780761115366
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great gift for a new rider

I just started riding this year and my instructor gave me this book for Christmas. The drawings and stories are so funny and completely true. So many of them relate back to lessons I have had such as mounting or the unscheduled dismount. I read it cover to cover in one sitting. This book would be a great idea for any horsey person.

Hold Your Horses

Hold Your Horses.Hold this book. And keep it on your desk, by your bed, in your car, wherever you can. Look at it whenever you need a lift. "Hold Your Horses" by Bonnie Timmons is wise, witty, wonderful and very, very, very funny! Timmons covers everything from falling in love with horses to falling off of them with style -- "call it an unscheduled dismount and you'll save face." Her whimsical illustrations are very clever and richly detailed. Coupled with her trademark take on life, they put this book over the top. Not just for equestrians, this little tome is a real treasure and a find for anyone who loves horses, people or good humor. Read it, savor it and you'll you want to get back in the saddle, no matter what you fell off.

My top favorite gift item!

Bonnie Timmons does indeed tell what it means to love a horse through her absolutely wonderful, whimsical illustrations and subtle warm and witty text. There's so much detail in the drawings that you simply have to look very very closely. I just loved reading the tiny text and have reread the book numerous times--naturally I had to make it my number one gift item this year for my family and all my friends. Even those who don't have horses. Bath Time, Grooming, the illustrations for designer bits, and the tiny "built-in ejector seat" saddle all make me glad I can read this book from my favorite chair! Hold Your Horses is a wonderful book and Bonnie Timmons obviously loves her horses..."no matter what"!

The best book in the world!(and its all true too!)

This book is the best horse book I have ever read, in my whole life! And every last bit of it is so true! I read this straight through, never stopping to put it down, and I laughed the whole time. When I found out the horse I ride for pony club cut his leg down to the bone, severing an artery(hes recovering nicely by the way), I was crying. I picked up Hold Your Horses and started reading, and felt almost instantly better. This book rules!

Amazing

I have been reading Bonnie's illustrations and comics in horse magazines for years now and always waiting my next month's issue. I am so glad that there is finally an entire book to cuddle up with after a long day at the barn. It will lift your spirits after the bad days and make you want to get right back out there again. At least you know you're never alone!