The animals on the carousel were all sculpted from drawings created by kids in the Riverbank Park neighborhood. Milo visited classrooms and the gazebo at the park dressed as a knight in shining armor. He explained the history of carousels to the kids, who were mostly in the first and second grade. Then, working at especially made workstations with lots of images of different animals to use for inspiration, the kids made thousands of drawings.

From these drawings, Milo had the very difficult job of choosing just thirty-six to make into full-scale carousel figures.

Animal	Artist	This is Milo in his knight costume. He made it out of foam. The knight's arms are his arms, but Milo's legs are in the horse's back legs! This is a model showing three stages of fabrication: the left one is a foam figure (Edwin's deer) covered in fiberglass, the center one has been painted with primer and the right one has been finished.
Alligator	Bladimir Leon Rodrigez
Bat	David Hernandez
Bull	Ramon Serra
Camel	Yeannette Mena
Cat	Donahue Bethea
Chihuahua	Adriana Francisco
Deer	Sophia Peralta
Deer	Edwin R. Vargas
Dragon	Elaine Pelaez
Elephant	Marlene Rodriguez
Fish	Ulanda Wilson
Flamingo	Sharette Ethel Allen
Frog	Tramaine Tyson
Giraffe	Yomayra Genao
Horse	Lizzie Queena Castle
Kangaroo	Krystal Civil
Lion	Grover Austin
Lion	Christian Sena
Lizard	Wilmer Tejada
Lobster	Tayra Garcia
Monkey	Ginette Acosta
Moose	Alfredo Mateo
Octopus	Raomej Caro
Peacock	Tommy Rivera
Rabbit	Taji Okolo
Skunk	Yashira Rodrigues
Slicker	Megan Vaughan and Emily Zall
Snail	Kelvin Filpo
Spider	Luis Moya
Spider	Angie Vargas
Swordfish	Sadae Williams
T. Rex	Jesus Brito
Tiger	Na'Tasha K. Simmons
Whale	Jason Williams
Zebra	Shanell Lashawn Davis

The photographs of the individual animal sculptures were taken by Christopher Hornsby.