![]() The magazine paid her $12.Ĭan you figure out what year that was? Hint: 1902 + 11. Marguerite wrote "Hide-and-Seek in Autumn Leaves," and the magazine published her article. When Marguerite was 11 years old, her mother told Marguerite that a magazine was looking for articles from children about the four seasons. So she read lots of books and wrote at her red table in the kitchen. ![]() ![]() She had to stay indoors, and couldn't go to school. The next year, Marguerite had a serious illness. On Christmas Day when she was seven years old, Marguerite's father gave her a little red table with a small pitcher holding pencils, scissors, paste, a hole punch, paper clips, a pencil sharpener and stacks of colored paper. On Saturdays, Marguerite enjoyed going to her father's publishing house, where there were rows of loud presses printing pages. ![]() Marguerite Henry was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of five children. The Misty of Chincoteague Foundation | The Author: Marguerite Henry ![]()
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