Morgan Horse Pictures Biography
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I was born in Westminster, Vermont, and have lived there most of my life. I grew up on a small farm, with cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, a lot of cats and dogs, and a younger brother and sister. We got our first horse, Scamper, when I was six.
I was born loving horses. Dad read Walter Farley's LITTLE BLACK, A PONY, every night until we both knew it by heart. Later I read every single horse book in all the libraries we went to, and then re-read them, and re-read them. (Try something else! Mom said, so I read the dog books, and the westerns because they took place on horseback, and then I read the horse books again.)
In fifth grade a teacher had our class write poems about anything we wanted to--a big change in our old-fashioned school. I wrote horse poems, and found out that writing is just as much fun as reading. From then on both were my refuge. I read through math class and middle school, and wrote through high school for a wonderful teacher and friend, Linda Felch.
I went to Wellesley College. My friends spent junior year at co-ed colleges. I had a boyfriend already, so I took a semester off, worked in a motel laundry, and wrote a story which became my first book, KEEPING BARNEY. It was, what else, a horse story, and I got The Call from the legendary Susan Hirschman of Greenwillow Books, at the front desk of my Wellesley dorm.
After college I married the boyfriend, Michael J. Daley, someone I'd known since high school. Soon after we built a tiny house in the woods, without benefit of any building experience. It was one-room, 12 feet by 16, the size of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Twentythree years later that house is still standing and sheltering us--a little expanded, but not much. It's powered by solar panels and still has outdoor plumbing (you can get used to almost anything, including an outhouse at twenty below, and it's amazing how much self-control it teaches!)
I had a lot to learn about writing, and following a quick couple of books I wrote many unpublishable manuscripts. It wasn't until I joined an SCBWI critique group around 1990, and at the same time lost my 20-hour-a week job, that I began publishing regularly. Around then I learned to write picture books, and the younger novels that have become one of my own special forms; the BEWARE books, and later the pony books that began with RUNAWAY RADISH. I also wrote a book of nonfiction, SAFE HORSE, SAFE RIDER, about how to handle and keep horses so you don't hurt them and they don't hurt you. The young novels have ushered many children into the world of reading; SAFE HORSE has possibly saved a number of lives; and I don't know which I'm proudest of.
I love to work in many different forms. HOOFPRINTS; HORSE POEMS, is a history of the world in poetry. I started to write a straight, nonfiction history of horses, and got bored filling in the tedious millenia. I wanted to react, I discovered, jump around--and I did, and it was more fun than anything else I've ever done.
I've written several historical novels, including UNBROKEN and CHASE. I've written a horse alphabet, and a picture book about our white horse, Scamper, and I've written a series of picture books about farming, the Gramp and Nora books. Most recently I published REVOLUTIONARY WESTMINSTER, and am just finishing TOWNSHIP NUMBER ONE; THE HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER, VT. with The History Press. A new early reader has just come out with Candlewick, and a new novel will be coming out in June from Feiwel and Friends.
I love the act of writing, I've learned to love rewriting, and I adore getting that first copy of a new book in the mail. But what I love best is knowing that out there in the world, kids are finding my books and curling up in private with them, having their own experience of them, and making of it whatever they will. The evidence of that is when I go to a library and see a beat-up, much-read copy of one of my books. I'll probably never meet the kids who read it, but I know it changed them somehow, as the books I've read changed me. That's why I do my best, every single time--because books matter.
MEET ME THROUGH MY THE WORK
I've written horse books for all ages; historical novels; contemporary novels; nonfiction; poetry; and history for adults. I was first published in 1982. If you grew up reading KEEPING BARNEY.and you're starting to raise or teach another generation of horse lovers, I'd love to hear from you.
If you're teaching beginning readers, I hope you'll look at the pony series--RUNAWAY RADISH, BIRTHDAY PONY, JIGSAW PONY--and my new book, BRAMBLE AND MAGGIE, HORSE MEETS GIRL. I often hear that "This was the first chapter book my child read from start to finish."
A librarian told me about a fourth-grade boy who came to her one day, hugging RADISH. "I never thought I could learn to love to read," he said, "and then I found my Radish." We both had tears in our eyes, in the middle of the grocery store.
If you want to quiet a room full of kids, read aloud the first chapter of FIRE! or CHASE, and hear them start to hold their breath (the ultimate thrill for an author). If you don't want to cry in public, DON'T read the second chapter of UNBROKEN. If you want a canter through the byways of history, read HOOFPRINTS. If you want to crochet your horse a saddle blanket, or learn how to take pictures of him, read HORSE CRAZY!
And you knew, didn't you, that the first blood of the American Revolution was shed at Westminster, Vermont? If not, read REVOLUTIONARY WESTMINSTER.
Published in 2011 from The History Press
REVOLUTIONARY WESTMINSTER: FROM MASSACRE TO STATEHOOD
Published in 2012:
from Candlewick
BRAMBLE AND MAGGIE, HORSE MEETS GIRL
from Feiwel and Friends: CHICO'S CHALLENGE
coming soon: WESTMINSTER, VT., 1735-2000: TOWNSHIP NO. ONE
An Easy Chapter Book in Candlewick's award-winning Sparks series
Coming soon:
WESTMINSTER, VERMONT, 1735-2000: TOWNSHIP NUMBER ONE
for the Westminster Historical Society
published by The History Press
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books
early readers
early readers
bramble and maggie, horse meets girl 1st-2nd grade bramble and maggie, give and take 1st-2nd grade jigsaw pony 2nd-3rd grade birthday pony 2nd-3rd grade runaway radish 2nd-3rd grade beware the mare 3rd-4th grade a blue for beware 3rd-4th grade be well, beware 3rd-4th grade beware and stogie 3rd-4th grade fire! my parents' storey 3rd-4rth grade
children's fiction
american girl of the year 2013
a two-book series for children age 9-up who love horses, art, and hot-air ballooning.
middle-grade nonfiction
horse crazy!
horse crafts, lore, book and movie reviews, sports and more; for kids who have horses and kids who don't (yet).
backlist
my backlist
out of print books for readers of all ages.
poetry
hoofprints; horse poems
six million years of the history of horses, in a hundred-plus poems; a voya poetry pick.
novels
shaper
a novel of love and dog-training; a golden kite honor book
unbroken
harry and her young horse are orphaned in the same accident, and sent to live on a hill farm with stern aunt sarah. can harry train the wild colt and return to school? and can she and aunt sarah ever love each other?
picture book
sugaring
gramp and nora make maple syrup, and gram makes a surprise nora can share with the horses. a story about the sweet science of maple sugar. illustrations by jos. a. smith
quick links
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www.storey.com
the website for storey publishing
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my husband also writes children's books.
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authors guildJustin Morgan is most famous in history for the horse which founded the Morgan breed of horses. He is also less widely known, but equally respected, as a musical composer of notable talent. He composed 18th century musical rendition of poetry and psalms known as fuguing tunes or psalmody.
Justin Morgan was a descendant of Miles Morgan and born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1747. Miles Morgan was the head of one of the earliest families in Springfield. Massachusetts, originally settling in the area in the 1640's. The Morgans are described as being "substantial yeoman farmers". Family members became active participants in their communities frequently holding town and church offices.
Justin Morgan was the son of Isaac Morgan and his first wife Thankfull. He was the eighth of eleven children, mostly boys. Little documentation has been found of Justin's childhood so his early life consists of much speculation. It is assumed that his life followed the same pattern as that of many other boys of the mid-18th century. He apparently received a quality education at some point in time, but where and when is not known.
In 1771 Justin was deeded a portion of his father's barn and a small amount of land. He married his first cousin Martha Day in December 1774 at 27 years of age. His first child Martha was born in May of 1776. She was followed by six other children, two of whom did not survive young childhood.
Morgan's occupations, as with others of that time period, appear to have been many and varied. He obtained a license to sell liquor at retail from his home and is said to have maintained a boatmen's tavern. He described himself as a husbandman, or farmer, in the town records. He also was a stallioneer, that is: he maintained stallions at stud with the stud fees generating a portion of his income. During the Revolution Springfield was a cavalry depot for the Patriots which would created a beehive of horse activity in the area. And Hartford, Connecticut, the acknowledged horse center of the times, was located relatively close, being just down the river.
In 1782 Morgan became involved in a lawsuit concerning a runaway slave named Price Freeman. Morgan, along with his brothers, were among those in the Springfield community who helped Freeman obtain his freedom so that he might join the Continental Army.
Morgan became a substitute tax collector for West Springfield in 1784. He apparently performed his duties as he was paid by the town in 1785. He again became tax collector in 1787. Taxes were very difficult to collect during this period. This was partially due to the poor economic conditions of the times, but equally difficult was meeting the requirement that tax debts be paid in spicie (or coins).
Massachusetts law allowed attachment of a tax collector's property and for the auction of that property if the collectible tax funds were not forthcoming. In post-Revolutionary War times, the citizens of Massachusetts were suffering financially from an economic recession and high taxes to pay war debts. Morgan apparently did not fulfill his position satisfactorily as he was summoned into court in January 1788 regarding the lack of tax receipts.
He was directed to pay the balance owed by order of the court. Whether he paid the balance due is unclear. Morgan sold his remaining property in March 1788, and moved to Randolph, Vermont. The tax collection situation has been speculated as being one of the reasons why he left Massachusetts for the then independent republic of Vermont as many others were doing at the time.
An attempt to correct the situation developed as people became more desperate and were unable to meet their financial obligations. Now known as Shay's Rebellion, action was undertaken to prevent the Court of Common Pleas from sitting. This court was where creditors sued debtors for payment of goods and services. by preventing the court from holding session, debt coll
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