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Misty of Chincoteague / Marguerite Henry ; illustrated by Wesley Dennis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chincoteague pony--Juvenile fiction.
- Chincoteague pony.
- Ponies--Juvenile fiction.
- Ponies.
- Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings.
- Chincoteague Island (Va.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Chincoteague Island (Va.).
- Brothers and sisters.
- Virginia--Chincoteague Island.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Animal fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Kepplinger, Mary (autograph) (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 173, [3] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; New York ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [1947]
- Summary:
- Paul and his sister Maureen's determination to own a pony from the herd on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among the ponies rounded up for the yearly auction.
- Contents:
- Part one. Before Misty
- 1. Live cargo!
- 2. The island of the wild things
- Part two. Misty of Chincoteague
- 3. The phantom
- 4. Sacred bones
- 5. A piece of wind and sky
- 6. Pony penning day
- 7. She can't turn back
- 8. Caught in the whirlpool
- 9. On the pony penning grounds
- 10. Colts have got to grow up
- 11. Storm-shy
- 12. The sold rope
- 13. A pony changes hands
- 14. The wickie
- 15. The fire chief pays a call
- 16. The pully bone
- 17. Wings on her feet
- 18. A wild bugle.
- Notes:
- "Edition of 1947"--Verso of title leaf.
- Illustrated endpapers.
- Newbery Honor Book, 1948
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has color-illustrated bookplate of Mary Kepplinger (the name supplied in manuscript) on verso of half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket (damaged) retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781416927839
- 1416927832
- 1416948317
- 9781416948315
- 0027436225
- 9780027436228
- 9780076714001
- 0076714004
- 068983926X
- 9780689839269
- OCLC:
- 176811
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Sample text
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