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LOVE IS... Magic and Rainbow's New Children's Book

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An Enchanted Afternoon Fairy Princess Tea Party

Magic Horses Poem

Photography Contest Winners Featuring Gentle Carousel Horses

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2009 Magic of Horses

MAGIC

RAINBOW

ANGEL

SUNDANCE

ALADDIN

ILLUSION

CHAPS

CIRCUS

PEANUT

ROCKET

FLAME

DURANGO

SPARKLE

TUMBLEWEED

ECLIPSE

STARLIGHT

MILKY WAY

COMET

WHISTLE

FEATHER

BRIGHTY

MOONBEAM

STARDUST

DREAMER

SPLASH

SCOUT

PRINCE

KALLIOPE

BANNER

CONTENDER

RAIN DANCE

SHADOW

SILVER

GERARD

DONKEY OTIE

MAGIC MAN'S ON DEMAND

The Future Of Gentle Carousel Where will the next Rainbow and Magic come from?

Contact Us

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 1672

High Springs, FL 32655

Phone: 352-226-9009

MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

Magic selected Most Heroic Pet In America. See her in AARP the Magazine.

Gentle Carousel in Woman's World magazine.

Gentle Carousel was selected a charity partner in Disney's volunteer program "Give a Day. Get a Day."

Sundance reading at a Boys and Girls Club with former NFL and University of Florida quarterback Doug Johnson for an Associated Press photo.

What an honor and thrill to have Gentle Carousel's Sundance as a riveting character in JASON AND ELIHU.-Shelley Fraser Mickle

" Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

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.

- Bill Bennett " Former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett

"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!

Best, Jon " Jon Provost - Appeared as Timmy Martin on Lassie

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.

"What 'Reading Is Magic' does for kids by going into schools and igniting excitement for reading a story is beyond compare. Keep the hoofbeats going."

Carl Joseph, Author of SOME CALLED ME SUPERSTAR

"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

Magic appearing on The Ilene Silverman Show.

James Gurney

Best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series.

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.

"Magic and Gentle Carousel,

Inspiring children to read is magical. You are making a difference!"

Chris Soentpiet - Acclaimed children's book author and illustrator

Professional baseball player Jon Townsend of the Los Angeles Angels visiting children with Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses and University of Florida football players at a camp for children with cancer.

"To Magic and Gentle Carousel-

You have a wonderful program. Thank you for bringing joy to children... Keep reading! It is magic!"

-Anna Grossnickle Hines, author and illustrator of over 50 children's books.

"...Thank you for all the work you do.

...Reading is Magic!"

- Linda Sue Park

Newbery Medal Winner

Gentle Carousel on television.

Photo Contests Winners Featuring Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses

First Place and People's Choice Winner in HorseWorks Photography Contest.

This photo was taken when Therapy Horse Stardust was only one day old! It appeared in the November 2008 Horse Illustrated Magazine.

Circus, who just met these five barking Dalmatians for the first time, won the Southern States Photo Contest and appeared in EquuSSourse Magazine.

First Place in the 2008 American Miniature Horse Association's Photo Contest. This photo was in Miniature Horse World Magazine.

Caliente was 1st Place in the 2008 Gainesville Sun Photography Contest.

First Runner Up in Apogee Photo Photography Contest.

Therapy Horse Circus can be found in this American Miniature Horse Association book

Angel with collie Argus was runner up in the Southern States "Barnyard Buddies" Photo Contest.

Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

Your donations are tax deductible.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill