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. You can also follow my Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest pages.First published in 1929, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years won the Newbery Award in 1930. I personally love the felt pinafore with a blanket stitch edge and embroidery. Pictured is the first outfit I made for my Hitty doll. The instructions are very thorough and I found this kit a great place to start exploring carving wooden dolls. I picked up a Gail Wilson jointed wooden Hitty kit and decided to make my very own precious little wooden doll. There are also kits to make Hitty dolls all over the internet. People often make their own little Hitty dolls. To my surprise, I discovered there is a good-sized following of this little doll.
The book is based on a real doll that can be viewed at the Stockbridge Library in Massachusetts. The book follows a little wooden doll and her adventures over the span of 100 years. My local doll friends helped reignite my dolly interest as we discussed the Newbery Medal book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. However, I did discover something wonderful during this time of turmoil. Wow, have I let my posts languish, or what? During the pandemic, it has been hard to accomplish all the things I planned on doing.
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