title: Fantastical Horses: Coloring Book
author:  Tabitha Ladin 
description: Tabitha Ladin has been drawing since she was a young child. She worked as a graphic designer for many years and has now decided to follow her passion for drawing and painting fantasy and nature. She sends her work to various Fantasy themed art shows around the country. She trades Artist Trading Cards on several websites and is on the panel at illustratedatcs.com. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  THE IDEA FOR THIS NOVEL FIRST CAME TO ME SOME SEVEN years ago when my late
  father-in-law, Raymond Metro, handed me a newspaper article and got me
  thinking about the way we see the people we love. I miss him still.
  
  
  But this book would never have come together without the time, help, and
  support of so many others. First, I must thank the people of Bone Gap,
  Illinois, who might be surprised to learn that their town is full of
  whispering corn, quasimythical creatures, and mysterious gaps one can slip
  through to get to other worlds. (Or not.) Thanks to my dad, Richard Ruby, for
  all his colorful tales about the horses on my great-grandfather’s farm. Thanks
  also to Linda Zimmerman and her daughter, Kelly Zimmerman, who invited me up
  to their beautiful home in Wisconsin to talk about everything from runaway
  racehorses named Mellow—not so very mellow—to barn cats that won’t be confined
  