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Book 29: Misty of Chincoteauge, by Margeurite Henry


Finished August 30, 2022

This is a favorite book from my childhood. As with many books, I enjoyed it so much better as an adult. I wept openly in the car as I listened to it, both from the poignant story and from missing the time in my life when I first met the characters in this book. The actor they chose to do the reading did a wonderful job. He sounds like the best grandpa ever, and makes the listener want to settle in against one's granddad to hear a good yarn about a time and place in the past. So glad I went across the channel with the Assateague islanders on Pony Penning Day again, as I did when I was 10. 



 



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