Category: Black Stallion

Black Stallion Newsletter – March 2007

From the Desk of Tim Farley:Hello everyone out there on cyberfarms!The Black Stallion has been very busy the last few months with all the old and new projects he has started.Many of you have asked about a book series titled "Phantom Stallion" and a writer named Terri Farley....  If you want to learn more about the project;The offical Black Stallion Literacy Project website.First Graders from the central Florida participate in the “second touch” portion of their curriculum.Students who participate in the program first meet horses when they receive their copy of Little Black, a Pony at their schools.

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Orlando Sentinel: "Horse story with true literary heart"

The special brown-bag matinees were rewards for participating in a unique reading program built around The Black Stallion series of children's books that have sold more than 100 million copies in 28 languages."Two Florida friends whose lives are intertwined with those classic stories created the literacy program and are about to expand it nationwide."One of them brings the love of horses and the other brings the love of books," says Beverly Brizendine, director of elementary education for the Osceola County School District, whose students have participated in the project for four years.Arabian Nights owner Mark Miller, 59, of St.... It was inevitable, then, that he would show up one day at Tankersley's celebrated Al-Marah farm, where television cowboy Roy Rogers and Ben-Hur movie chariot drivers camped with their horses while performing in the area."Mark's mother was among the first to import purebred Arabians to the United States, so my father got to know his parents before we were even on the scene," says Tim Farley.Tankersley and the author became so close that Farley never purchased an Arabian from any other breeder.

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