If you earned $12 in 1913, what could you buy with that much money in today's dollars? You can use an ' inflation calculator' to find out.ĭid you get $248.79? Would you like to earn that much money by writing a story for a magazine? Try finding a magazine looking for an article and writing a story to see if you can!Īfter school Marguerite visited the library. The magazine paid her $12.Ĭan you figure out what year that was? Hint: 1902 + 11. Marguerite wrote 'Hide-and-Seek in Autumn Leaves,' and the magazine published her article. When Marguerite was 11 years old, her mother told Marguerite that a magazine was looking for articles from children about the four seasons. So she read lots of books and wrote at her red table in the kitchen. She had to stay indoors, and couldn't go to school. The next year, Marguerite had a serious illness. On Christmas Day when she was seven years old, Marguerite's father gave her a little red table with a small pitcher holding pencils, scissors, paste, a hole punch, paper clips, a pencil sharpener and stacks of colored paper. On Saturdays, Marguerite enjoyed going to her father's publishing house, where there were rows of loud presses printing pages. Marguerite Henry was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of five children. I'll definitely recommend it to horse lovers, but it's not going to become a favorite of mine.The Misty of Chincoteague Foundation | The Author: Marguerite Henry The characters are fairly static, and the dialogue comes across as a bit old-fashioned, but I can see how the book would appeal to its target demographic.

It's a nice enough story, with some action and suspense.

So now, as an adult, I decided to read it and see what I missed. I had a childish aversion to it, and I was not pony crazy. Will Paul and Maureen have enough money to buy both?Confession: I never read this book as a child, though I was recommended it more than once. This year, the Phantom is captured for a surprising reason: she has a foal. The brother and sister have their hearts set on buying a pony on the next pony-penning day - and not just any pony, but the Phantom, who has resisted capture for two years running. Paul and Maureen Beebe live with their grandparents, who gentle wild Chincoteague ponies for a living, but training up ponies for sail is not the same as having one of your very own.

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