Jessie Haas
Award-winning Children's Author

Coming In November

From Storey Publishing

Want to crochet a saddle blanket? Get involved in showing model horses? Learn about modern chariot racing, jousting, and guide horses for the blind? Or just integrate horses into everything you do in life? HORSE CRAZY! is your book. Packed with crafts, book and movie reviews, info on all kinds of horse sports, and with special features on drawing and photographing horses and writing horse stories, HORSE CRAZY! offers plenty for horse owners and those who haven't yet achieved that dream. For kids age 8-up, and of course, their parents!

HORSE CRAZY! Winner of the 2009 Teacher's Choice Award, Family Category
given by Learning Magazine
AND
The 2009 American Horse Publications Award

Welcome to my website. If you like horses or reading--or both!--you should be happy here. I've written horse books for all ages; historical novels; contemporary novels; nonfiction; poetry. I was first published in 1982. Maybe you grew up on books like KEEPING BARNEY. Maybe you're starting to raise or teach another generation of horse lovers. If so, I'd love to hear from you.
Or maybe you're teaching beginning readers. If so, I hope you'll look at the pony series--RUNAWAY RADISH, BIRTHDAY PONY, JIGSAW PONY. They're winning awards for transitional fiction, and best of all, stories are coming back to me. "This was the first chapter book my child read from start to finish."
Or the librarian who told me of the 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 liesurely canter through the byways of history, read HOOFPRINTS. If you want to handle horses so you don't hurt them and they don't hurt you, read SAFE HORSE, SAFE RIDER.
And then get in touch. I'd love to hear what you think.

Coming in 2011 from History Press
REVOLUTIONARY WESTMINSTER: FROM MASSACRE TO STATEHOOD
Coming In 2012 from Candlewick
BRAMBLE AND MAGGIE
An Easy Chapter Book in Candlewick's award-winning Sparks series
also: CHICO'S CHALLENGE
a novel with accompanying horse model from
Breyer and Feiwel & Friends

Georgia Children's Book Award Master List 2010