Paul and Phantom win a prize of twelve dollars. Paul rides Phantom in the big race the following year on Pony Penning Day. They spend the next year training Phantom to ride and keeping Misty out Paul and Maureen are able to purchase the Phantom and Misty at the auction. When Misty begins to struggle swimming across the channel from Assateague to Chincoteague Paul jumps in and swims her to safety. Much to everyone's surprise Paul is able to corral the elusive Phantom and her new bornįoal Misty. The first time with the men who round up the wild ponies. Paul and Maureen worked numerous odd jobs to earn enough money to purchase a pony at the auction held during Pony Penning. Ponies and they dreamed of owning a pony of their own. Paul and Maureen helped their grandfather raise and train The book is about Paul and his sister Maureen who lived on Chincoteague Island with their grandparents. The book is fiction, but based on real people, Paul, Maureen, Clarence (Grandpa) and Ida (Grandma) Beebe,Īnd real Chincoteague Ponies, Misty, Phantom, and the Pied Piper. Part, while staying at Miss Molly’s Inn on Chincoteague. Marguerite Henry was inspired to write the book when she traveled to Chincoteague Island to witness the annual Pony Roundup and Swim. Henry later wrote a series of sequels to the original book.

The 1961 film Misty was based on the book. The book won the Newbery Honor in 1948 and became a children’s classic,

Misty of Chincoteague is a novel written by author Marguerite Henry in 1947.

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