Books with author Annette Blake

The Sometimes It Happens series was born out of Ms. Blake’s work with children in a school setting. When she witnessed children experiencing difficult situations, she wanted to help them deal with their strong emotions. She began to create stories to help the children use coping skills to give them comfort and hope. The Sometimes it Happens series was born.This first book in the series, Sometimes it Happens: You Have to Stay Home, focuses on the current (Covid-19) situation of children having to stay home, away from their daily routines; keeping them away from their friends, schools, teachers, and even other relatives. While Ms. Blake continued to educate from home, she listened to her student’s feelings and questions. She took these thoughts and put them together to help children have a positive outlook on a difficult situation, letting them know that everything will be ok.Watch for more Sometimes it Happens books coming soon!

The Sometimes It Happens series was born out of Ms. Blake’s work with children in a school setting. When she witnessed children experiencing difficult situations, she wanted to help them deal with their strong emotions. She began to create stories to help the children use coping skills to give them comfort and hope. The Sometimes it Happens series was born.This first book in the series, Sometimes it Happens: You Have to Stay Home, focuses on the current (Covid-19) situation of children having to stay home, away from their daily routines; keeping them away from their friends, schools, teachers, and even other relatives. While Ms. Blake continued to educate from home, she listened to her student’s feelings and questions. She took these thoughts and put them together to help children have a positive outlook on a difficult situation, letting them know that everything will be ok.Watch for more Sometimes it Happens books coming soon!

After graduation, Lex, a relatively good girl who spends her summers at Sunset Beach with her family is headed to the beach house alone for part of the summer this year. Lex's parents will meet her at the summer house for part of the summer but before then, the family’s long time summer friends and neighbors, the Alaric’s, have agreed to keep an eye on her. Life at Sunset Beach becomes a lot more interesting for Lex when Nolan, the eldest Alaric and one of Sunset’s hottest guys makes it his personal responsibility to keep an eye (or two) on Lex until her parents arrive. Nolan, who is also one of Lex’s oldest Sunset Beach friends challenges himself, Lex, and all of their friends when he tries to hide his feelings for Lex, especially when another guy enters the picture.Lex, Nolan and their longtime summer friends are faced with romantic twists and turns that take them on a fun filled yet emotional journey that ends where none of them expected.

Sometimes it happens, you’re bored and there’s nothing to do.Take a trip outside. You may find your own zoo!So sometimes kids get bored. They can’t find things to do. This often will lead to fights with siblings, isolation or destructive behaviors. This book helps children to go outside find something to explore! Gives them an escape to keep their minds off nothing to do! It promotes positive thoughts in a child, so they can just walk outdoors and become an explorer.

Sometimes it happens and there’s no real answer why?Sometimes someone close to you may die.Real life doesn’t slow down just because you’re a child. This book helps children get ready ahead of time to experience sickness and death close to them. Beginning with the death of a plant or a pet, she guides the child to see that the end of a life can be experienced using all their emotions, and that’s a good thing!Parents and grandparents will find this book a wonderful tool to help their little ones deal with a difficult but real subject.

Sometimes it happens, you’re bored and there’s nothing to do.Take a trip outside. You may find your own zoo!So sometimes kids get bored. They can’t find things to do. This often will lead to fights with siblings, isolation or destructive behaviors. This book helps children to go outside find something to explore! Gives them an escape to keep their minds off nothing to do! It promotes positive thoughts in a child, so they can just walk outdoors and become an explorer.

Sometimes it happens and there's no real answer why?Sometimes someone close to you may die.Real life doesn't slow down just because you're a child. This book helps children get ready ahead of time to experience sickness and death close to them. Beginning with the death of a plant or a pet, she guides the child to see that the end of a life can be experienced using all their emotions, and that's a good thing!Parents and grandparents will find this book a wonderful tool to help their little ones deal with a difficult but real subject.

"Do you still watch those old horse movies that you've seen a dozen times, just for the scenes of the horse galloping in slow motion? Do you hold your breath just a bit? Do you get something in your eye? We've been besotted with horses since they had three toes. From the popular Relaxed and Forward blog comes training advice combining the everyday fundamentals of dressage with mutual listening skills. Blake writes with a profound respect for horses and an articulate voice for humans, blending equal parts inspiration and un-common sense. It's serious training communicated with humor and lightness, because horses like us when we laugh. Most riders want to build a better relationship with their horse. These short essays are geared as much toward attitude as technique, and include topics ranging from reading calming signals from your horse to using breath as your best communication tool. Blake's writing uses clear descriptions, storytelling, and humor to inspire meaningful, positive communication. Less correction and more direction. Horses are honest; they answer us in kind. If we want a better response, a more fluid conversation and relationship with a horse, we have to be the ones to change first. The other word for that is leadership.By the award-winning author of Stable Relation, A Memoir of One Woman's Spirited Journey Home, by Way of the Barn."Excitement and delight surge through me every time I see Anna Blake's name as an author. Her writing is filled with deep understanding and heart connection, seasoned with a lively dash of humor. Reading her work is like giving myself a gift...one I can open again and again." --Kim Walnes, winning USET Three Day Eventer, Riding Instructor/Trainer, and Life Coach.

**2016 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist** When most women go through a mid-life crisis, they start a diet, get plastic surgery, or have an affair. My life went to the dogs...and horses...and llamas... and did I mention happy hour with the goats?My urban world came apart, so I took a leap of faith and crash-landed on a dilapidated would-be horse farm on the flat, windy, treeless prairie of Colorado. It was a place where white horses turn pink at sunrise and I didn't have to worry about locking the back entry to the house, because the door was missing. The biggest social event of any week was greeting the trash man on Tuesday. And what should I do about the deceased llama in the laundry room?Any decent midlife crisis has a quality of time travel, in this case swinging back to my childhood farm and my disconnected, secretive family, then forward to the animals who became my family on the prairie. My dogs and horses were soon joined by some line-dancing llamas and a biker-gang of goat kids, defying gravity and every other rule. I rescued an abused donkey who told me he was Ernest, and Windy, an un-wanted chestnut mare who became our beloved herd matriarch. Even Fred, the duck lived by a code.It's the memoir of my bittersweet transition from a mid-life orphan to a modern pioneer woman, building an entirely different kind of family farm.Stable Relation appeals to all animal lovers, midlife survivors, and anyone whose parents had problems of their own. It's told in a strong, bittersweet voice, sharing life and death on a small farm and the healing power of animals: James Herriot meets Janette Walls.

A lonely girl learns to play a discarded trombone.An abused stallion learns to trust.Together, they save their world.Eleven-year-old Josey Miller knows two things: it’s her fault Mama left, and she will do anything to coax her back. When Mrs. Casey, the new music teacher, starts a band at Bennett Springs Middle School, Josey sees it as her chance to finally belong to something and convince Mama to visit for her concerts. The only problem: there’s no money for a clarinet, what with Dad laid off and fighting to keep their farm. But things start looking up when Grandpa Joe gives Josey an old trombone to play, and Mr. McInerny starts boarding his high-dollar Arabian stallion with Dad. Nobody can train horses like Josey’s father. And that’s good because Chief is dangerous.When her father and the stallion go missing during a 50-mile endurance ride in the Ozark Mountains, can Josey bring them safely home?