Baby Horses Pictures Biography
Source(Golge.com.pk)Alison Lester was born on the 17/11/1952 at Foster in Victoria, Australia. She grew up on a farm overlooking the sea and first rode a horse as a baby in her father’s arms. She still lives in the country and rides her horse Woollyfoot, whenever she can. Her picture books mix imaginary worlds with everyday life, encouraging children to believe in themselves and celebrate the differences that make them special.
Alison spends part of every year traveling to schools in remote areas, using her books to help children and adults write and draw about their own lives. Alison began illustrating children’s books in her late twenties. After training as a secondary art teacher she found that although she loved teaching art, she didn't like the everyday routine of school.
When her first baby, Will was born, Alison knew that she wanted to work from home, so she looked up publishers in the Yellow Pages, found Oxford University Press, rang up and asked for a job. She was lucky to be interviewed by three lovely women who could see the potential in her scrappy folio and gave her a book to illustrate. After five years of illustrating other people’s stories she found herself getting picky with their texts and had a go at writing her own. Clive Eats Alligators was the result, and she has been writing and illustrating her own stories since then.
In 1997 Alison's first children’s novel, The Quicksand Pony was published and The Snow Pony followed in 1999. "I hope I can continue to write both “chapter books” and picture books,” she said at the time “My heart is always with the little kids, but as my own children get older I find myself more and more interested in novels".
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1979, began illustrating children’s books.
1985, wrote first book, Clive Eats Alligators.
'1985 – 2004, writing and illustrating.
Exhibitions at Books Illustrated, Fremantle Children's Literature Centre, Des Bunyon Gallery, Dromkeen, Season’s Gallery, McClelland Gallery.
1993, guest speaker at IBBY conference, Manila.
1996, Writers Project Grant from the Australia Council to research the Spanish Riding school in Vienna for Running With The Horses.
1999, writer in residence at Tanglin Trust School, Singapore.
2001, guest speaker at Story Lines Festival, Auckland.
2002, visiting author at the Bologna Book Fair, Italy, sponsored by the Australia Council.
2004, guest speaker, Simmons College, Boston, USA.
2004, visiting author to Seoul, Korea for Children’s Book Week.
2004, visiting author, schools in Tokyo.
2005, traveled to Antarctica as an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow for the Kids Antarctic Art project.
2005, workshops and exhibition of Are We There Yet in Japan as part of the Asialink literature touring program with the Aichi expo.
2005, photographer on tourist ship to Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
2006, Are We There Yet? illustrations exhibited in Taipei.
2006, first painting for the Kid’s Antarctic Art project exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
2007, visual artist on two voyages to Peninsula region of Antarctica.
2007, Kid’s Antarctic Art exhibition opens at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
2007, photographer and writer on voyage around Spitsbergen in the Arctic.
2008, Kids Antarctic Art exhibited at Melbourne Style, South Melbourne, featuring selected works as larger canvasses.
2009, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia: Presenter at Writers Festival.
2009, India, Authors Tour.
2009, Tokyo/ Japan, Artist in Resident and working in International schools.
2010, Bologna/ Italy, Visiting Author at Bologna Book Fair.
2010, Melbourne, Exhibition of Running With The Horses Australian Academy of Design.
2011, travelling exhibition of Are We There Yet?
2011, Kiev, Ukraine, artist in residence, International School.
2011, China, author tour, Swimming With Stories exhibition.
2012, Antarctica, from Hobart on tourist ship working as expedition artist.
2012, National Year of Reading' Ambassador. Are We There Yet? the book chosen to represent.
2012, National Year of Reading Tour of Regional Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
2012 - 2013, chosen as first Australian Children's Laureate with Boori Monty Pryor.Heaven’s remuda improved by one fine mare on February 8, leaving this planet one short, with the passing of Roxy (aka Whizards Baby Doll), best known as horsewoman Stacy Westfall’s bareback and bridleless mount. She sustained traumatic injury after apparently becoming cast in her stall sometime during the night of Feb. 5.
Many will best remember Roxy from a video that went viral on the Internet in which Stacy rode her with no bridle or saddle, winning the Freestyle Reining Championship at the 2006 American Quarter Horse Congress. The performance, coming less than a month after Stacy’s father passed away, touched an appreciative audience worldwide. One person quite moved by the ride was TV personality Ellen DeGeneres, who invited Stacy and Roxy to appear on her show. Roxy, ever the lady, gave Ellen a memorable ride, and charmed the live studio audience by coaxing peppermints from Stacy.
Roxy first came to Stacy and her husband, Jesse, for training as a two-year-old. “I was the first one to ride her,” Stacy recalls. Not long after her arrival, the Westfalls had an opportunity to buy her, but couldn’t afford to. “One of our other clients had asked us to keep an eye out for a good horse, so when we couldn’t get Roxy, Jesse suggest he should.” That client, Greg Gessner, bought Roxy and kept her in training with the Westfalls.
“It was the perfect partnership,” Stacy says. “Greg believed in us — in Roxy, and Jesse and me. There aren’t many owners who would let a fairly unproven trainer do something as crazy as ride in a competition with no bridle, let alone saddle. But he always wanted what was best for Roxy. He loved her.”
And Greg never looked back. “I truly feel blessed by God to have Jesse and Stacy in my life working with me and Roxy. I never once doubted their abilities or judgment. And while Roxy was my horse, it was always clear she loved Stacy.”
Roxy was ten months pregnant carrying her first foal on the night she had her mishap. Greg had her scheduled to move to a foaling facility in time for her early March delivery date, but since the move had not yet happened, she was in a large foaling stall at home. It was Greg who discovered Roxy in her stall early on the morning of Feb. 6. Although she was standing, she was favoring one back leg, and her nose and one knee had abrasions, most likely from the struggle to get up after having laid down. The stall showed signs of that struggle.
Greg called Roxy’s vet, Dr. Curt Honecker, who stopped by and began administering medications. As the day progressed, and Roxy’s discomfort grew, Greg and Dr. Honecker decided to take her toValleyViewAnimalHospitalinDover,Ohio, where Roxy is well known and loved by the staff.
“Ever heard of the saying ‘You get one good dog in your lifetime?’ Well I think Roxy may have proved that true in the horse world. She truly was a once in a lifetime horse,” says Ashley McCahill an equine receptionist at Valley View.
Over the course of the next couple of days, Dr. Honecker and the staff did their best to make Roxy comfortable. Sadly, the tearing and shredding of the ligaments and muscles that occurred when Roxy struggled to rise was causing dramatic swelling in both flanks and upper stifles. Even in a sling, with morphine in her system, Roxy was unable to stand. Recognizing her rapidly progressing condition and severe pain, Dr. Honecker and Greg chose to humanely euthanize her.
“It was a hard to make that decision,” says Greg. “But she didn’t deserve to be in pain. Knowing it was the right decision made it easier.”
The Valley View staff did their best to save the little, sorrel stud colt she was carrying, even though he was 30-days premature. They performed a C-section, but after two hours of oxygen support, the colt failed to respond and was also euthanized.
“I would have expected this mare to outlast my career,” Dr. Honacker says. “We’re going to miss her. Staff and visitors used to sneak back to have their pictures taken with her.”
A registered American Quarter Horse, Roxy (by Whizard Jac out of a daughter of Gunners Rambo) leaves behind a legacy of four offspring, all of whom were carried by recipient mares. But perhaps her greatest legacy is the glimpse of what is possible between a horse and a human — the image of she and Stacy, forever imprinted in the minds of those who have been lucky enough to witness them — two creatures, human and horse . . . bound by trust and love.
“What made her special was that she was willing to give so much of herself,” says Jesse Westfall. “She allowed herself to be developed into an amazing partner, a work of art. Not many horses, or people, are willing to do that.”
Roxy will be greatly missed by many; the Valley View staff, Greg Gessner, the Westfall family and all those inspired by her big heart.
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Posted by Stacy on February 10, 2012 in Life
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393 Responses to Full story of Whizards Baby Doll “Roxy” born March 15, 2001 died Feb. 8, 2012
Kathy Johnson Boone
February 10, 2012 at 6:22 am
My heart reaches out to all who loved and admired this amazing animal.
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Cher Hague
February 14, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Australia here, a fan of you both. Having put my 30 y o quarter horse to sleep and rest in my rose garden…I know the heart ache you will feel in your loss…you will always have a smile to comfort you because she lived such a gifted life and was loved by many, close your eyes and you will always have loving wonderful memories that will live on forever…within your family cirlce of humans and horses. You where very special to have been choosen by her to develop such a unique relationship and she in return was already living in heaven and paradise with you as a devoted owner.
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