Margaret Warner Morley

Cover of Donkey John of the toy valley. Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co. 1909 Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858, in Montrose, Iowa – December 12, 1923, in Washington, D.C.) was an American educator, biologist, and author of many children's books on nature and biology.

Biography Morley grew up in Brooklyn. She studied at State University of New York at Oswego and Hunter College. She worked as a teacher and was considered an expert in agriculture and beekeeping.

The North Carolina Museum of History owns a collection of original photographs that Morley donated to the museum in 1914.

Morley died on December 12, 1923. Little Mitchell, the Story of a Mountain Squirrel 1904 The Renewal of Life: How and When to Tell the Story to the Young 1906 Donkey John of the toy valley. Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co. 1909 Grasshopper Land 1910 The Carolina Mountains, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (1913) Will o' the wasps 1913 The Bee People 1914 the Apple-Tree Sprite 1915