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  • Happy Holidays!
    My Father Christmas print was matted and framed by a customer, and she shared this photo of it fram...
  • NANCY DREW
    In the early eighties I illustrated a number of Nancy Drew stories for the Wanderer series. I d...
  • New for 2024: 
    FARM ANIMALS BOARD BOOKS

    Just released in November 2024! Written by my daughter Whitney, these two boards books were rea...
  • Horses,  News

    A Starred Review for A Storm of Horses!

    “Inspired by watching her father at work, young Rosa Bonheur dreamed of creating her own paintings and supporting herself someday. It was an unconventional, impractical notion in nineteenth-century France, but with her father’s guidance and her talent…

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    BOOK NEWS: New Picture Book in 2022

    My first picture book biography for children, A STORM OF HORSES, the Story of Artist Rosa Bonheur is about a 19th century French woman artist whose gigantic painting of horses ( eight by sixteen feet!) has been hanging…

  • Fun Stuff,  Horses

    How to Draw a Unicorn

    This is a close-up of a unicorn head that I painted for a collector’s plate series years ago. Follow the steps below to draw him. These are similar to the steps for drawing horse heads in my…

  • Fun Stuff,  Horses

    How I Draw Horses

    Different artists each have their own way of approaching how to draw horses. My book, Drawing Horses, is just one way. My method is based on the observation of real horses, usually ones I have photographed myself,…

  • Books,  Recent Books

    A Castle Full of Cats

    The queen’s cats have taken over the palace, and the king has had enough! Beloved artist Ruth Sanderson brings her signature detailed and lush style to this humorous story of royal compromise. Told in rhyme, and with…

  • Books,  Recent Books

    Mother Goose and Friends

    Whether at storytime, playtime, or bedtime, Mother Goose will once again have children giggling at jumpy Miss Muffet and clumsy Jack and Jill, twisting their tongues in knots with Peter Piper, and singing along to well-loved verses…

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    Books,  Recent Books

    The Golden Key

    Praise for this illustrated edition:  “Now with the wonderful illustrations of Ruth Sanderson, I think we can see a real balance between Art and Literature….Ruth’s extraordinarily detailed creations are as multi-layered as the story itself.” — Christopher…

  • Books,  Recent Books

    Cinderella

    Sweet Cinderella is forced to spend her days waiting on her cruel stepsisters and stepmother, almost forgetting that she, too, was once a fine young lady with handsome clothes and a soft bed to sleep in. But…

  • Books,  Horses,  Recent Books

    Hush, Little Horsie

    Mama horses around the world promise to watch over their little ones as the foals frolic and play and eventually fall asleep in this soothing bedtime story. Young horse lovers will drift off with Ruth Sanderson’s stunning…