Phantom Stallion E-Newsletter February 2008
Welcome
Welcome to the fourth "Phantom Stallion" E-Newsletter. We can't believe it's already been four months!
We're excited to bring you the latest from Phantom Stallion and Terri Farley. Remember to check out Terri's calendar to see if she'll be signing books or presenting in a bookstore in your hometown!
March brings Saint Patrick's Day (better wear green or risk getting pinched!), the official beginning of spring and the Read Across America on March 3. The National Education Association (NEA) introduced Read Across America (RAA) 11 years ago to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday (and of course to celebrate the last year of great reading!) This year, Dr. Seuss would be 104 years old!
RAA has great ideas for how to celebrate including throwing a reading party and reading out loud to your friends or class. They even have a state-by-state booklist on the NEA website! Of course, you can read whatever your heart desires on March 3, and every other day of the year. Let us know what you plan to read on RAA Day. Send us your ideas and it may be posted on the Phantom Web Site. As always, please be sure to get your parents permission first. We will post your first name, state and RAA choice.
Want to share your love for the Phantom Stallion books? E-mail your friends a Phantom Stallion e-postcard of your choice.
Finally, take a look at the photo album and check out all of Terri's new horse pictures.
Happy trails!
This just in . . .
You may be wondering why you're getting the newsletter so early this time around. It's because Terri has officially joined with the Humane Society of the United States to support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. We want to give you all enough time to write in and send your letters!
On March 4 Terri will join the Humane Society in Washington D.C. in distributing letters to our legislators. Write a letter to your legislator to express how you feel about horse slaughter. Be logical, historical, persuasive or emotional. Just remember, respectful letters will get the best results!
Educators are encouraged to share this project with their classes and parents.
Click here for ideas for your letters.
Please mail your letter no later than March 1 to:
HEARTS FOR HORSES
316 California Avenue #1265
Reno, NV 89509
Sam's blog
Just when the snow in the ranch yard had turned into slush...Just when snow slid off the house room and melted into beautiful icicles … just when the horses rubbed on pasture fences, rushing the shedding of their winter coats -- another storm blew in.
Where is Terri Farley?
April 11-13
SCBWI CONFERENCE
Virginia City, NV
Did you know?
March is National Women's History Month, a celebration of Multicultural American women. Before the 1970s women were often overlooked in most United States history, so the National Women's History Project (NWHP) is writing women back into U.S. history. Women like author Terri Farley are history in the making.
The celebration started in Sonoma County, California in 1978 and originally a week in March was dedicated to women's history. Women's History Week was nationally recognized by U.S. congress in 1981 and expanded to the entire month of March in 1987.
Terri's favorite historical women all rode horses:
- Sarah Winnemucca, a member of the Paiute tribe brokered a peace treaty between tribes by galloping back and forth through the dangerous Nevada territories. She then began peaceful negotiations between Native Americans and white settlers, eventually going to Washington on behalf of her people.
- Jane Cannary, or "Calamity Jane," lived when the West was still very wild and is rumored to have done saddle acrobatics such as riding on her head with her long red hair streaming to make warlike tribes think her mad and therefore bad luck to kill. She also worked as a cavalry scout, and used good sense and backwoods medical skills to save an encampment of miners during an epidemic.
- Sybil Ludington, often referred to as the female Paul Revere, rode a horse 40 miles to warn her father's troops the British were coming when she was only 16 years old.
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