By phone between Sutton’s home near Charlottesville, Virginia, and Henry’s home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, the two had become friends and champions of a common cause &mdash the Misty of Chincoteague Foundation. Thirty years later, in 1990, Sutton met the woman whose books had inspired her to study literature and to write two children’s horse books of her own. “She sent me a very sweet reply to my fan mail, and that started my great affinity for her.” Sutton was 10 years old when she had her first contact with the author of Misty of Chincoteague and 58 other books. Sharing that with kids was her greatest joy it was what she lived for.” She had made horses her life’s work and life’s love. “She was 88 when I first met her, a tiny, child-like person with bright, sparkling eyes, still energetic and full of wonder. “I’ve never met anyone who had such a total innocence about her,” says Sutton. “No matter how old she became, she was still a 10-year-old at heart, and she was able to capture all of the fantasies that nine- and 10-year-olds have about animals, especially ponies,” says Beth Sutton, remembering Marguerite Henry, the beloved children’s author who died last November at age 95.
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