Each month in the Book Room online, we recommend newly published books that we love, here's our selection for January: Horses.
Marguerite Henry is an American mid-century author who wrote many children's novels about horses and other animals which have become classics. She herself was an animal lover and kept many on her farm. One of our favorite aspects of Henry's books is their historical basis. Most of her characters and settings really existed. Do the names Misty, Brighty, Stormy or Muley-Ears ring any bells? Here's a few of the Henry titles we have in the Book Room.
MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE begins with history in the account of the wreck of a Spanish galleon off the coast of Virginia. The ponies in the hold of the galleon swim to Assateague Island and become feral as the years and the centuries pass. They are still there today. Misty herself was inspired by a real-life pony of the same name and is set in the island town of Chincoteague, Virgi…