Run Rikki Run is an allegory about the coming of age experience featuring a young race horse. Rikki, a young race horse, finds himself faced with the reality that his days of playing in the pasture are over and he must now enter the world of competitive racing where he will be judged by his performance. But what if he loses? In desperation, he turns to his friends for advice, but their answers only complicate his situation. Finally, at the peak of his crisis, Rikki discovers a solution to his fear from a very unlikely source. Run Rikki Run is a timeless story about the transitions in life when change in inevitable. Everyone must grow up, but the fear of failure is very real and must be overcome to allow people to reach their full potential.

Margie Fisher, originally a resident of the small town of Colwyn, just outside of Philadelphia, now resides in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. For the past ten years, she has acted as the Cyber School Facilitator for the Bald Eagle Area School District. She is Vice President of a Therapeutic Riding Center Program in Centre County called Rising Hope. When her second daughter, Brooke, was born with Down syndrome, Margie found she had no choice but to share the greatest inspiration of her life despite her private nature.

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Janet Griffin-Scott has been a professional equine artist and book illustrator since 1992. She owned, rode, showed, and raised horses for over forty years, including the special mare that you see in her logo, Cinnamon Lady. She created and sold a line of greeting cards with a horsey theme, published a book titled Watercolour Painting Made Easy: Horses and Ponies, and designed two coins for Canada’s Royal Canadian Mint. She has illustrated several dozen books for authors all over the world and currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

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