Lots of kids love animals. RiseUp EQ helps them love animals wisely.
Through animal stories, horse-centered workbooks, printable activities, and family-friendly resources, kids can read, explore, aspire, and learn while building confidence, empathy, responsibility, and wise animal care.
Many RiseUp EQ stories and resources are inspired by real rescued horses and the lessons they teach us about trust, patience, courage, and wise animal care. Their full stories are coming soon.
Hi, I’m Robyn.
I create animal-centered books, workbooks, and learning resources for kids who love horses, animals, and meaningful stories. RiseUp EQ helps children learn from animals while building curiosity, responsibility, kindness, and the qualities that help them become someone animals can trust.
If your child dreams of helping animals someday, this is a place to begin to Read * Explore * Aspire * Learn.
Before developing RiseUp EQ, Robyn Smith founded and operated Equine Life Solutions, a former horse-centered education business. Her barn-based work with horses and young learners—together with her experience in equine instruction, stewardship, and children’s publishing—helped shape the practical foundation behind RiseUp EQ’s books and learning resources. From the barn to the bookshelf, that experience continues to inform an animal-centered approach to knowledge, responsibility, observation, and trust.
Equine Life Solutions was a horse-centered education business founded and operated by Robyn Smith, who was its sole owner, director, and instructor. Through ELS, Robyn worked directly with horses and young learners in activities that included groundwork, riding instruction, confidence-building, and practical learning around horses.
Equine Life Solutions is a former business and no longer offers these services. RiseUp EQ is a separate business focused on books, workbooks, and educational resources, but Robyn’s earlier work through ELS forms part of the hands-on foundation behind it.
Working directly with horses and young learners gave Robyn a practical view of how much children can learn when they care about an animal. Barn life naturally creates opportunities to practice patience, responsibility, communication, observation, thoughtful decision-making, and leadership.
Those experiences helped shape RiseUp EQ’s current approach: connecting accurate animal knowledge with stories and activities that encourage children to slow down, notice more, see through the animal’s eyes, and become someone animals can trust.
Robyn’s background includes hands-on equine instruction, youth learning activities, and practical equine-property stewardship. Public records document her work with the Snohomish Conservation District on measures related to manure management, rainwater collection, and reducing stormwater runoff at the equine facility associated with ELS.
Robyn is also the author of Horse Life: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for and Riding Horses for Kids, published in 2020. Together, these experiences inform the practical, animal-centered perspective behind RiseUp EQ’s books, workbooks, and learning resources.
Hi, I’m Olga.
I help bring RiseUp EQ resources to life through creative design, publishing support, and family-friendly learning experiences. Together, we’re building a warm resource space for kids, families, and animal lovers.
Here, families can find animal-centered stories, horse workbooks, printable activities, reading rewards, book bonuses, and simple resources that help kids grow in REAL EQ: Read • Explore • Aspire • Learn.
We created RiseUp EQ to give animal-loving kids a safe, encouraging place to read, think, explore, and learn.
We wanted to build resources that feel meaningful without feeling pushy — books, puzzles, workbooks, and activities that help kids grow through curiosity, kindness, and wise animal care.
Read • Explore • Aspire • Learn
| Read | Reading is the doorway into story, empathy, imagination, and animal-centered understanding. Strong reading habits help children build vocabulary, focus, comprehension, emotional insight, and a lifelong love of learning. |
| Explore | Exploration is guided curiosity: asking questions, noticing details, and discovering the world with wonder and wisdom. |
| Aspire | Aspiration means helping children see who they can become through courage, effort, responsibility, and hope. |
| Learn | Learning is active understanding: children connect what they read and explore to real-life choices, skills, and character. |
Most RiseUp EQ resources are created for curious kids ages 8–12, especially kids who love animals, horses, stories, puzzles, and hands-on activities. Parents, homeschool families, educators, and barn programs may also find helpful printables and enrichment pages.
Not exactly. RiseUp EQ resources can support homeschool, classroom, club, or enrichment learning, but they are designed to be flexible. Families can use one printable, one workbook, one story, or a whole collection of activities at their own pace.
RiseUp EQ is designed to be parent-led and family-friendly. Parents join Pony Partners, download resources, and choose what fits their child.
Children can enjoy the books, printables, puzzles, and activities with adult guidance, but the site is not designed to collect personal information directly from kids.
Animals naturally invite kids to observe, ask questions, notice feelings, and think carefully.
A horse, donkey, or rescue animal can make reading and critical thinking feel more connected to real life.
Also, animals are excellent teachers — even when they are being a little ridiculous.
Pony Partners is the free RiseUp EQ club for families with kids who love animals, books, horses, and learning. Families can join free to receive reading rewards, printables, book bonuses, and updates from the RiseUp EQ world.
I may use AI tools to help brainstorm, organize, draft, or polish some RiseUp EQ materials, but the resources are reviewed and shaped by me before publication.
My goal is to use helpful tools responsibly while keeping the final content thoughtful, age-appropriate, and aligned with RiseUp EQ’s mission.
Yes. RiseUp EQ has many horse and rescue stories waiting in the wings. Some are sweet, some are funny, and some involve animals making very strong choices about how the day should go. Stories are coming soon.
Start with free animal-centered resources, reading rewards, and family-friendly learning activities. Pony Partners Free is the easiest way for families to begin.