![]() ![]() ![]() Hitty didn't mind being stuck in a hayloft for twenty years. As children's book author and illustrator Rosemary Wells says of Hitty, a childhood favorite of hers, she loved Hitty's "indomitable spirit and the time carried her from owner to owner like a river. And, for long periods of time, she is lost to the world whether it is underwater or in a hayloft. Sometimes she is loved, sometimes she is ignored and sometimes she is treated badly. She travels with a snake charmer, attends the opera, meets Charles Dickens, has her daguerreotype taken, becomes a doll of fashion and sits as an artist's model. From there, she finds her way from a tropical island, to India, to Philadelphia then to New York. ![]() Hitty's adventure begins when she and Phoebe join Captain Preble aboard his whaling ship. Narrated in the first person by Mehitabel, or Hitty, herself, she tells how she went from a sturdy piece of Mountain Ash Wood in Maine in the early 1800s to a carved doll and playmate to Phoebe Preble. First published in 1929, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years won the Newbery Award in 1930. ![]()
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