The cover of the first edition of "Margaret" says Lowrey was born in Orange, where her father was superintendent of schools. In 1958, Walt Disney made the book into a five-part series to showcase Annette Funicello, the Internet Movie Date Base reports. "Margaret" was in print for more than 25 years. Houston and Beaumont are mentioned in the book, and the Web site "Good Reads" places the setting as Woodville. The story is set in a coastal town on the Gulf of Mexico in 1909 and is about a girl who is orphaned and moves to live with an uncle in East Texas. Next to "The Poky Little Puppy," her most famous book was "Margaret," printed in 1950 and geared for adolescent girls. "The Poky Little Puppy," one of the first of the 12 original, inexpensive Little Golden Books, has never been out of print. One of her early books, "In the Morning of the World: Some of the Greek Myths" was reprinted in 2007 and is available through bookstores and Internet sites. She wrote dozens of books for children and young readers from the 1930s through the 1970s. As an adult, she lived in San Antonio, where she died in 1984 at the age of 92. She was Janette Sebring Lowrey, who was born in Orange in 1892 and even wrote a book based on her childhood in the town along the Sabine River. Yet few people can name the author of "The Poky Little Puppy." That's more than "Tales of Peter Rabbit," "Green Eggs and Ham," or any one Harry Potter book.
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