She was unable to attend school with other children due to her weak condition and the fear of spreading the illness to other people.

The Delineator (a popular women's magazine) had solicited articles about the four seasons from children, and she was paid $12 (now about $250) for "Hide-and-Seek in Autumn Leaves".

[1] She often wrote about animals, such as dogs, cats, birds, foxes, and mules, but chiefly her stories focused on horses.

So I went to the library, studied the horse books, and immediately fell in love with the work of Will James and Wesley Dennis.

Henry's last book was Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, a 93-page novel published in September 1996, when she was 94 years old.

Kirkus Reviews called it "Vintage Henry ...a lighthearted version of the old girl-meets-horse story; only this time, the horse is a mule.

[4] Misty features the annual Pony Penning of feral horses from Assateague Island, a two-day round-up, swim, and auction that Henry had been "sent to look at" by her hopeful editor, Mary Alice Jones.

[12] She created several Misty-related titles including two more children's novels illustrated by Dennis, Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague (1949) and Stormy, Misty's Foal (1963).

The beneficiaries of "Marguerite Henry's Legacy", as a Washington Post editorial termed local tourism, were the Assateague nature preserve and Chincoteague town.

The illustrations are not particularly attractive to the reviewer, but the text should serve to introduce children to this little-known possession of the United States.