Marguerite Henry

Awards

Henry won the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association in 1949, recognizing King of the Wind: the story of the Godolphin Arabian as the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". She had been a runner-up for Justin Morgan Had a Horse in 1946 and Misty of Chincoteague in 1948. In 1960, Black Gold won the Sequoyah Book Award. Gaudenzia: Pride of the Palio was awarded the Clara Ingram Judson Award for children's literature in 1961. Misty of Chincoteague was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1961. Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West received the 1967 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book and the 1970 Sequoyah Book Award.

Works

Auno and Tauno: a Story of Finland, illus. Gladys Rourke Blackwood (1940) Dilly Dally Sally, illus. Gladys Rourke Blackwood (1940) Birds at Home, illus. Jacob Bates Abbott (1942) Geraldine Belinda, illus. Gladys Rourke Blackwood (1942) Their First Igloo On Baffin Island, illus. Gladys Rourke Blackwood (1943) A Boy and a Dog, illus. Diana Thorne and Ottilie Foy (1944) Justin Morgan Had a Horse, illus. Wesley Dennis (1945) The Little Fellow, illus. Diana Thorne (1945) Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman, illus. Lawrence Dresser (1945) Always Reddy, illus. Wesley Dennis (1947); also published as Shamrock Queen Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin, by Henry and Wesley Dennis (1947) – about the artist Benjamin West, Misty of Chincoteague, illus. Wesley Dennis (1947) King of the Wind: the Story of the Godolphin Arabian, illus. Wesley Dennis (1948) Little-or-Nothing from Nottingham, illus. Wesley Dennis (1949) Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague, illus. Wesley Dennis (1949) Born To Trot, illus. Wesley Dennis (1950) – about the Standardbred line and specifically the mare Rosalind Album of Horses, illus. Wesley Dennis (1951) Brighty of the Grand Canyon, illus. Wesley Dennis (1953) Justin Morgan Had a Horse (revised), illus. Wesley Dennis (1954) Wagging Tails: Album of Dogs, illus. Wesley Dennis (1955) Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox, illus. Wesley Dennis (1956) Misty, the Wonder Pony, by Misty, Herself, illus. Clare McKinley (1956) – picture book Black Gold, illus. Wesley Dennis (1957) – about the horse Black Gold Muley-Ears, Nobody's Dog, illus. Wesley Dennis (1959) Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio, illus. Lynd Ward (1960); also published as The Wildest Horse Race in the World – featuring the Palio di Siena horserace All About Horses, illus. drawings by Wesley Dennis and photos (1962) Five O'Clock Charlie, illus. Wesley Dennis (1962) Stormy, Misty's Foal, illus. Wesley Dennis (1963) Portfolio of Horse Paintings, illus. Wesley Dennis, "with commentary by Marguerite Henry" (1964), White Stallion of Lipizza, illus. Wesley Dennis (1964) – about the Vienna Spanish Riding School Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West, illus. Robert Lougheed (1966) – about Wild Horse Annie and American mustang conservation Dear Readers and Riders (1969); also published as Dear Marguerite Henry San Domingo, the Medicine Hat Stallion, illus. Robert Lougheed (1972); also published as Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977) and adapted for television under that title by Ed Friendly (1978) – set in Pony Express-era Wyoming, Stories from Around the World, edited and with an introduction by Marguerite Henry (1974) The Little Fellow (revised), illus. Rich Rudish (1975) A Pictorial Life Story of Misty, drawings by Wesley Dennis (1976) One Man's Horse, illus. Wesley Dennis, "with famous paintings and prints by selected artists" (1977) – selections from Born to Trot (1950), The Illustrated Marguerite Henry, illus. Wesley Dennis, Robert Lougheed, Lynd Ward, Rich Rudish (1980) – biographical material about these four of her illustrators, with selections from their work, Our First Pony, illus. Rich Rudish (1984) Misty's Twilight, illus. Karen Haus Grandpre (1992) Album of Horses: a pop-up book, illus. Ezra N. Tucker (1993) Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, illus. Bonnie Shields (1996) My Misty Diary, illus. Bill Farnsworth (1997)

Pictured Geography Albert Whitman and Company of Chicago published the Pictured Geography series in the 1940s. Four sets of eight 28-page children's picture books about world nations and other territories were illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Henry wrote the texts for the first and fourth sets. Kirkus Reviews observed in a brief contemporary positive review of the fourth series, "Third and fourth graders will find this a pleasant way to expand the confines of school geographies."

First Series, 1941 Alaska in Story and Pictures Argentina in Story and Pictures Brazil in Story and Pictures Canada in Story and Pictures Chile in Story and Pictures Mexico in Story and Pictures Panama in Story and Pictures West Indies in Story and Pictures

Fourth Series, 1946 Australia in Story and Pictures Bahamas in Story and Pictures Bermuda in Story and Pictures British Honduras in Story and Pictures Dominican Republic in Story and Pictures Hawaii in Story and Pictures New Zealand in Story and Pictures Virgin Islands in Story and Pictures

Bernadine Bailey wrote the second, 1942 series; Lois Donaldson the third, 1944 series.

The Virgin Islands volume was reviewed briefly in the "New Biological Books" section of The Quarterly Review of Biology: "A brief account of the historical, economic, and geographical features of the Virgin Islands. The illustrations are not particularly attractive to the reviewer, but the text should serve to introduce children to this little-known possession of the United States."