Talk:Marguerite Henry

message: Not that it's not a great book, but why make it the main focus of the article?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.164.97 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 5 May 2006‎ (UTC)
: Much of that old material, if reliable, will be welcome in the book/novel article Misty of Chincoteague. Its focus is now Misty, the domestically foaled Chincoteague Pony (categories  and )! --and the series of books, coverage I added this week --little about the content of the novel or its relation to Henry's career.
: --P64 (talk) 16:46, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why so much emphasis on Misty?! 

message: There seems to be some confusion about the book, The Illustrated Marguerite Henry.  I'm not surprised because the title is so ambiguous it would be difficult to determine exactly what it's about.  It was not the title the author wanted.  She wanted to call it To My Artists, With Love, which makes perfect sense, but unfortunately she was overruled by her publisher. The book is an overview of her four main illustrators: Wesley Dennis, Robert Lougheed, Lynd Ward and Rich Rudish. She writes about each man with many color examples of their illustrations throughout. The written material is all new, but the illustrations are not. It is a lovely book. Rondelet (talk) 20:36, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: illustrated biography of illustrators, in a few words. The Library of Congress catalog provides no Summary, nor any linked Publisher description, but its Subject headings --all subheadings to "Juvenile literature"-- clearly support that comment. Momentarily I will annotate that Works listing. --P64 (talk) 18:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: The Illustrated Marguerite Henry

message: "Henry finished her last book, Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, just before her death."
That line is old here, as we have revised preceding and following text. The first edition of Brown Sunshine was published 15 months before Henry died. Kirkus does not specify in its online archive the bimonthly issue in which its review appeared but it does give publication date September 1, 1996, for the novel. Goodreads reports the same "first published" date concerning the May 1, 1998, paperback edition. Momentarily I will change our old prose and also add the specific publ date to our list of works.
--P64 (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brown Sunshine, her last book 

message: : relocated with modification to stand alone, in preparation for deletion of sections 1.3 to 1.6 -P64 2015-02-17 15:50
The online archive of Kirkus Reviews contains as many as 25 contemporary reviews of books by Marguerite Henry certainly including at least 9 starred reviews. (The Kirkus search results run 12 per page and may include some duplicates.) Nine starred reviews among the hits:
*Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (1947) #
*Misty of Chincoteague (1947) #
*Little-or-Nothing from Nottingham (1949) #
*Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague (1949) #
*Born To Trot (1950) #
*Album of Horses (1951) #
*Black Gold (1957) #
*Muley-Ears, Nobody's Dog (1959) #
*Guadenzia, Pride of the Palio (1960) #
There seems to be no review of Stormy, Misty's Foal --the third Misty novel-- and that for Misty's Twilight is strongly negative. See Misty of Chincoteague#Series.
--P64 (talk) 02:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kirkus Reviews 

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