Girl Meets Horse: an Easy Introduction to Horse Care and Riding for Kids and Tweens | 
I requested this from LibraryThing Early Reviewers as I volunteer with Riding for the Disabled and I thought it might give me some insight and tips on the horses. I received it as a pdf which means that though the intro says underlined words are linked to definitions the links don‘t work.
The intro is about the author, how she always wanted to work with horses and ended up doing so and a fictional book series she wrote for younger readers.
humouress Ch 1: some things are a bit more basic than I was looking for (‘Horses have four long legs, one in each corner of their body.‘) but then it starts to get informative: ‘At the end of each long leg is a horse‘s hoof. Oval shaped and made out of the same material as our fingernails, a hoof is actually a horse‘s toe.‘ Gaits were interesting but diagrams would have been helpful (edited) 4mo
humouress This s a bit American-centric re breed names. Possibly with technical terms too, but I wouldn‘t know. I haven‘t heard the term 4-H but I don‘t know if it‘s a global or just USA horse term (and the links don‘t work for this pdf). (edited) 4mo
humouress Ch 2 (How horses came into our lives): Evolution of horses from prehistoric times to historic use (in USA). At the moment this is a cross between a thesis on horses and quiz Q&As (with some references to the author‘s fiction series thrown in). Interesting format but doesn‘t really work for me - but then, I‘m not the target audience. There is a list of a few different types of disciplines with brief descriptions (eventing, driving, saddle types) (edited) 4mo
humouress Needs some editing. This puzzled me:”Most hay these days is grown in large fields and sown with enormous harvesting machines that bale as they go. “ Is it sowing or harvesting? 4mo
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