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Hitty is a doll, made of mountain-ash wood. The book is her "writing" the tales of her first 100 years. She starts off with Phoebe Preble and is soon taken with Phoebe on a whaling ship. Hitty transfers through numerous owners before ending up in an antiques shop. There is definitely some racist language especially concerning natives of an island Hitty ends up on and an African American family she ends up with for awhile. This book is immeasurably better than the first Newberry winner I read, th
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Copyright date: 1929…Odd to think that my mother might have run across this book as a little girl and read it….I remember reading it myself as a little girl. Like many of the older Newbery books, it is a vision into the past, a little trip into life for kids before TV and computers and IPods.
Hitty is a wooden doll made in the early 1800’s. Her underpants are embroidered with her name and along the way she becomes the most literate of dolls. One girl after another owns her, though her painted fe ...more
Hitty is a wooden doll made in the early 1800’s. Her underpants are embroidered with her name and along the way she becomes the most literate of dolls. One girl after another owns her, though her painted fe ...more
Lexile 1180L
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
Dec 08, 2022
Mary Paul
marked it as to-read
