Riding High
Riding High
Colleen Rutherford Archer
Line drawings by J.O. (Judi) Pennanen
6 X 9 inches, 76 pages
THIS IS A STORY OF TEENAGE RIVALRY set in the fabulous surrounding of Birchwood Equestrian Centre. It is the story of Corrie Wagar's growing love for Mark Renzies and her steadfast love for Con, a magnificent stallion. It is also the story of how Crystal Thompson tries to destroy Corrie's plans.
Colleen Rutherford Archer
Author
Colleen Rutherford archer is a freelance writer from Deep River, Ontario, where she and her husband Andrew own a small horse stable. For ten summers she ran a volunteer therapeutic riding program with her friends. Colleen has published five young adult novels (Foxy and the Missing Mask, Riding High, A Touch of Something Wild, and Collie Rescue with Penumbra Press, and The Horse Dealer with Borealis Press), a novella, and hundreds of articles and short stories for newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. In 1984 she was the winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for her writing for young people. Colleen has two daughters, Elizabeth and Heather, and two granddaughters, Bridget and Alison.
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J.O. (Judi) Pennanen
Illustrator
Do I Have To Go To Sleep? is J.O. Pennanen's tenth illustrated book for Penumbra Press. Her illustrations for children's books are often described as whimsical and lyrical, while her artwork
for adult literature is edgy and dark. Having lived in northern Ontario and New
Brunswick, she currently resides in southwestern Ontario.
Judi's art is represented in several major collections, public and private. Her subject matter very often derives from the northland itself, as in North Country Spring, from which she draws on the sights and sounds of "the landscape and its creatures, and the four seasons that create the variety and richness of the places."