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Anne Louise MacDonald was born with a passion for horses and a vivid imagination. She has worked with animals all her life and currently works part-time caring for critters from fish to rats. The rest of her time is spent teaching natural horse and hoof care, enjoying her two horses and writing. Her first YA novel, The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green, became an international best seller and is printed in five languages. Seeing Red is a companion book, second in her 'Hug a Horse Farm' series, which guarantees horses, kids with real-life problems and a bit of the paranormal. At the moment Anne Louise is working on a new novel and two picture books.
She has also presented writing workshops for children and adults, and is available for writing festivals and conference presentations.
Excepts from Anne Louise's books are available on her website.
- My Natural Horses. Antigonish: Hug a Horse Farm, 2009. ISBN 978-0981391007.
- Seeing Red. Kids Can Press, hardcover ISBN 978-1-55453-291-9, paperback ISBN 978-1-55453-292-6.
- Frankie Uccello seems like just another fourteen-year-old boy - Ace of Average, King of Common, Master of Middle. Everything he does has a tendency to turn out average. Even when Frankie dreams recurrently of flying, his father tells him that at least one in three people does this. He's perfectly normal, normal, normal. Or is he? When Frankie discovers something ominous about his dreams - that he can dream the future, especially when something bad is about to happen - he realizes that he might be talented, after all. But seeing the future was only cool in movies and TV. In real life, you're just a whacko. Besides, the future doesn't look good. One night Frankie dreams his best friend, Tim, falls from a horse. Is Tim going to be killed? Can Frankie save him? Something about the dream doesn't fit, and that something is Weird Maura-Lee, one of three people Frankie avoids like the plague. Maura-Lee can read minds, and she seems to be reading his.
- Excellent teacher resources associated with this novel are available at www.kidscanpress.com.
- The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green. Kids Can Press, 2004. ISBN 1-55337-636-6.
- Kim sees a beautiful black horse from her school bus window on the very day Gramma-Lou is coming to live with her family. Gramma-Lou is Kim's best friend, sharing her passion for horses and loving her just as she is, overwhelming shyness and all. Everything is going to be perfect when Gramma-Lou comes to stay. But when Kim looks for the black horse, it seems to have vanished. Was it a ghost? There's talk of ghosts around Meadow Green - kids at school claim Kim's house is haunted. Kim's parents say it's nonsense, but when Gramma- Lou finally arrives, Kim's perfect plans are shattered and dark secrets come to light in Meadow Green.
- Nominated for the 2006 Snow Willow Award.
- Excellent teacher resources associated with this novel are available at www.kidscanpress.com.
- The Memory Stone. Illustrated by Joanne Ouellet. 1998, 2003, Nimbus Press. ISBN 1-55-09-442-8.
- Translation: Un caillou-bonheur. Les editions d'Acadie, 1998.
- Shortlisted for the 1999 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature
- Our Choice selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre
- Resource Links The Year's Best list
- The Dog Wizard. Illustrated by Brenda Jones. Ragweed Press, 1999. ISBN 0-921556-76-4.
- Our Choice selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre
- Nanny-Mac's Cat. Illustrated by Marie Lafrance. Ragweed Press, 1995. ISBN 0-921556-54-3.
- Our Choice selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre
- Resource Links The Year's' Best list
