Whitney Sanderson is the daughter of Horse Diaries illustrator Ruth
Sanderson. Her family has owned horses since she was a child, and
her bookshelves were always filled with horse stories. When she
isn't writing, she volunteers at a horse rescue and therapeutic
riding center. She has an Appaloosa named Thor, who posed as the
model for Golden Sun.
Ruth Sanderson grew up with a love for horses. She drew them
constantly, and her first oil painting, at age fourteen, was a
horse portrait.
Ruth has illustrated and retold many fairy tales and likes to
feature horses in them whenever possible. Her book about a magical
horse, The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring, won the
Texas Bluebonnet Award in 2003. She illustrated the first Black
Stallion paperback covers and a number of chapter books about
horses, most recently Summer Pony and Winter Pony by Jean Slaughter
Doty.
To find out more about her adventures with horses and the research
she did to create the illustrations in this book, visit her Web
site, www.ruthsanderson.com.
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