Teddy Get Off That Mountain

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Children’s Book Shows How Fun and Adventurous Farm Life Can Be for Kids
Life’s not boring at the farm when children have fun and play with animals.

Judy Catherine Moratis can’t get enough of miniature horses that she creates a new adventure around them. The result is her second children’s book Teddy Get Off That Mountain (Tate Publishing, 2016), which came almost two years after the publication of Angel: And Love Came Down, her debut under the same publisher.

Teddy Get Off That Mountain involves Kory, a young boy who loves to feed the miniature horses at his family’s farm. It is unsure how many horses does the farm have or whether the horses, other than the pet cat by the name of Pancake, are the only animals in the farm, but Kory does have a name for them. One of the miniature horses is named Teddy. When Kory, his sister Kim, and their father saw Teddy standing on a ‘mountain’, that’s when the adventure starts.
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For farm children, life is fun and always an adventure. Readers should not miss Teddy Get Off That Mountain, which recently appeared at the 2017 Bologna Children's Book

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