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Annie Wedekind

Annie Wedekind is an accomplished rider who grew up riding horses in Louisville, Kentucky, at a farm very much like Sunny Acres. Since then, she’s been in the saddle in every place she’s lived, from Providence to New Orleans, South Africa to Brooklyn. She still loves horses and rides at every opportunity. Annie’s next two books, Wild Blue and Little Prince, are the start of the new Breyer Horse Collection from Feiwel and Friends and both will be available in Spring/Summer 2009.

Works

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A Horse of Her Own

Square Fish
A girl who longs for her own horse is given the chance to care for a troubled, damaged horse, who needs her as much as she needs him.
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Little Prince
The Story of a Shetland Pony
Breyer Horse Portrait Collection

Feiwel & Friends
Inspired by A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s classic, and sure to be as enduring, for the horse-loving set, Little Prince is the...
  
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Wild Blue
The Story of a Mustang Appaloosa
The Breyer Horse Collection

Feiwel & Friends
A wild blue roan Appaloosa filly from a mustang habitat in the Idaho wilderness is captured by the world of men, putting her life in danger—and the freedom of...
  
Annie Wedekind

Quick Facts

Hometown: Louisville, KY
Currently resides: Brooklyn, NY

 

Favorite books:

Horse book: Man O’War, by Walter Farley

Children’s book: Three-way toss up between Treasure Island, the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace, and the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

Grown up book: Too hard to say. This month, perhaps it’s The House of Mirth / Edith Wharton.

 

Interesting facts:
 
1. Annie started riding horses when she was six, and rode mostly at Undulata Farm, which serves as the model for Sunny Acres farm.  Undulata, in Shelbyville, KY, is now a well known Saddlebred farm.
 
2. Annie took the name “Sunny Acres” from a beautiful horse farm she passed every day on the bus going to elementary school.
 
3. Annie helped train young horses on a farm in Grahamstown, South Africa, when she lived there in 2002.
 
4. Annie also rides motorcycles. And has tattoos, as well as a brand new baby boy, Henry, born January 27, 2008!

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