“When Misty comes back home, you and she can be a team.

From Sea Star: “Look at me, Sea Star,” said.

Misty is referred to as a “movie star,” and she’s obviously made the family prosperous, but there’s no indication in the text that she was ever gone, which makes it feel like Sea Star never happened.Īgain, Henry contradicts a passage in her earlier work, preventing the three books from coming together as an integral whole. There are more details surrounding such things as church visits and the contents of the Beebe’s smokehouse, along with a family cat and dog. Happy dog, less happy cat.īeing considerably longer than the first two Beebe books, Marguerite Henry is able to place more focus on the location, with Pony Ranch clearly defined as a going concern. It’s a sequel meant for older kids, with a greater suspense and dread, and it stands on its own identity rather than the laurels of what came before. Stormy, Misty’s Foal is a much darker novel than Misty or Sea Star, death-riddled from the sixth chapter (when a neighbor reports on two thousand drowned baby chicks), onward through the storm and into its aftermath, in which Paul and Grandpa Beebe are enlisted to scour the islands and place markers wherever dead ponies are found. Will Misty and her colt survive? Will the Beebes have a home to return to? And how can the islands ever recover from such terrible devastation? Animals can’t come on the helicopters, so the Beebes have to move Misty into their kitchen and hope for the best. Paul and Maureen are excited and impatient, but a violent storm strikes the islands, causing massive tidal flooding and forcing the locals to evacuate.

Misty has been home with the Beebes for an indeterminate amount of time and is now ready to have her first foal. This second sequel is a great improvement on Sea Star and makes so little reference to the events of that book that it could even be read as the first sequel to Misty – which nine year old me believed it to be, thanks to the Aladdin boxset.Įdition: Aladdin Paperbacks (1991), 223 pagesįirst Line: In the gigantic Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Virginia, a sliver of land lies exposed to the smile of the sun and the fury of wind and tide.

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