JESSIE HAAS has raised and trained three horses, starting with Josey when she was in seventh grade. The author of over thirty books, she has been called “the current queen” of children’s horse stories (BCCB, April 2004). Unbroken won the Parents’ Choice Award, Horse Crazy! won the American Horse Publications Award, and Jigsaw Pony is a Gryphon Award Honor Book. Jessie lives in southern Vermont with her husband, writer Michael J. Daley, two cats, a dog, and a hen, and is currently training a Morgan mare named Robin. www.jessiehaas.com