Love this book! It's a family history, love story and tragedy all wrapped up in one fictional novel. Brilliant writing that gets better as the book progresses.

Good basic guide to Parelli and Natural Horsemanship as conceived by Pat Parelli. It's a bit repetitive and some of the pictures do not clearly depict the intent.

It does provide a basic overview of the tenents and practices that are the basis of Parelli.

I'd say this one is worth the money that I spent. It's been read by several members of my family now, and although the reviews aren't entirely positive, everyone learned something from it.

Very much a beginner book. Fairly accurate, but not nearly in depth enough for me. Good for a horse enthusiast who doesn't have very much knowledge about horses or horsekeeping, but any interested horseman or woman will need a lot more information than this can provide.

This book is used in the Equine Studies program at Kemptville College/Guelph University.

Stephanie Pearl Mcphee has thousands of fans and it's easy to see why when you read this book. I laughed, I snickered, I guffawed, and on occasion, even felt a tear come to my eye.

This book has made the rounds of my knitting and nonknitting friends: all of them give it an unqualified thumbs up!

Keep on writing and knitting, Yarn Harlot, we love you!

This book is not written with Canadian weather in mind.

It is good for a beginning horse owner who has no idea what to look for when shopping for a hobby farm or a teenager trying to work out how to keep a small pony in the back yard.

The "plans" for small acreage hobby farms are not drawn to scale, nor is there any consideration for snow removal/plowing. Putting an electric fence wire within 4" of the ground would mean that it would ground out in the first snowfall. Buildings are not to scale - and a 20' x 40' is sometimes four or more times the size of a 20' x 20' garage or even the barn.

It does give you ideas about what sort of fencing would be ideal, but I haven't been to a horse farm yet that has fencing as high as the tallest horse's withers. In our paddocks, that would mean that the fences needed to be almost 6' high - that's totally unnecessary, even for our stallions.

Planned paddocks in the plans often come to acute points - like funnels - where a horse could be trapped and hurt. Fences shouldn't have narrow areas where horses can be trapped or a "herd" of horses could get stuck in a panic.

This book is used as a textbook in the Equine Studies program at Kemptville College/Guelph University. I hope the professors discuss the pros and cons of the designs rather than just assuming their students will "know" how to apply the book to real life.

I'd like to see a lot more information on manure management and how to safely disperse manure so as not to contaminate ground water or spread parasites. This book has a small chapter on manure management, but it's totally inadequate for Ontario, Canada.