Lynn Anderson

Gary Anderson, Lynn's brother, worked with their father, Lawrence Anderson to renovate the Watch Hill Carousel. The horses lived in the Anderson workshop each winter and became part of the family while they were cleaned, repaired, sanded, primed and painted. New saddles, harnesses and bridles made the little wooden horses feel proud and eager to go back to the carousel for the summer. While they lived in the barn workshop, Gary's children rode them, talked to them and played between their saw horse stands. Soon Lynn was paintingthe horses' portraits, and dreaming of stories about thelittle wooden horses of the Watch Hill Carousel. Most people don't know where the horses spend the winter, so the answer to that question was the beginning of this colorful book. Gary Anderson still cares for all of the carousel horses of the Watch Hill Carousel in Watch Hill, Rhode Island where children ride them each summer.

Lynn Anderson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University and has done further study at the University of California, Rhode Island School of Design and Lyme Academy. She is the author and illustrator of several books, including the bestsellers The Christmas Memories Book, The Christmas Memories Cookbook, and The Baby Memories Book. She is painter, sculpter, and writer/illustrator who exhibits her work in galleries throughout New England. Her artwork, including painting, sculpture and book illustration is always on exhibit at the Artist's Cooperative Gallery of Westerly in Westerly Rhode Island.(Westerlyarts.com)