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Misty of Chincoteague is a children's novel written by pony book author Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis, and published by Rand McNally in 1947.Set in the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia, the book was inspired by the real-life story of the Beebe family and their efforts to raise a Chincoteague Pony filly born to a wild horse, who would later become known as Misty of ...
Marguerite Henry (née Breithaupt; April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) [2] [3] [4] was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. [5]
John Wesley Dennis [2] (May 16, 1903 [3] – September 3, 1966 [a]) [2] was an American illustrator, known best for fifteen children's books about horses that he created in collaboration with writer Marguerite Henry. [4] He illustrated over 150 books in his lifetime, [5] including Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and John Steinbeck's The Red Pony. [4]
The books mainly concern the doings of the "Horseclans", a nomadic people originating from the "Sea of Grass"—the Great Plains from present-day southern Canada to central Texas, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
Christine Pullein-Thompson, later Christine Popescu and a nom de plume of Christine Keir (1 October 1925 – 2 December 2005) was a British horsewoman and writer known for her pony books. Her mother, her two sisters and her daughter also wrote pony books; together they created more than 200 books for children – and Christine wrote more than ...
Patricia Leitch (13 July 1933 – 28 July 2015), was a Scottish writer, best known for her series of children's books in the pony story genre about Jinny Manders and her wild, traumatised Arabian horse Shantih, set in the Scottish Highlands.
Here, a guide to reading the Slow Horses books in order: Slow Horses. Herron introduces readers to Slough House, the dilapidated London building where problematic MI5 agents (called "slow horses ...
The story evokes the vivid and accurate sense of location, for which the author is well-known and beloved. [4] The author, in an interview years later, tells of hearing the story of a horse who was tethered in a field, and the horse, upon hearing a song on a nearby car radio, started all on its own to do a dance it must have been trained for.