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MISTY<br />
OF CHINCOTEAGUE BY MARGUERITE HENRY<br />
A book review by Pam Maley and Chloe McFarland<br />
What better surroundings for Marguerite Henry to live out her days, than the<br />
beautiful equestrian community of Rancho Santa Fe, California? A horse lover<br />
among horse lovers, she was in harmony with her fellow residents.<br />
Marguerite Henry – Biography<br />
Marguerite (Breithaupt) Henry (1902–1997) grew up in Milwaukee,<br />
Wisconsin. Passionate about reading and writing from a young age, Henry<br />
sold her first story to a magazine at age 11. In 1923, she married Sidney<br />
Crocker Henry and the couple moved to the picturesque countryside of<br />
Wayne, Illinois where they began collecting the menagerie of animals<br />
that would serve as inspiration for many of her children’s books.<br />
Intrigued with the stories of the wild ponies on the island of<br />
Chincoteague, Henry spent a summer living there to research her<br />
story, the true story of Paul and Maureen Beebe, grandchildren<br />
of a hard-working but poor pony trader. It was from him that<br />
she bought Misty as a foal, and took her home to be the model<br />
for her story.<br />
Published in 1947, Misty of Chincoteague won the Newbery Honor, has had more than twenty hard-cover printings, and is<br />
part of the childhood of every horse-crazy young adolescent.
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