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A doll named Hitty recounts her adventures--from a whaling expedition to the Civil War to the stock market crash--as she moves through a continually changing string of owners, in a full-color adaptation of a Newbery Award-winning novel. 35,000 first printing.
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Following the "life" of a wooden doll may seem like a strangely passive way of learning American history, but it turns out to be a remarkably gripping approach. In the course of her first hundred years, the peddler-carved doll Hitty travels from Boston to India, is abandoned for years in an attic, is shipwrecked in the South Seas, meets President Abe Lincoln, and at one point lives with a snake charmer. Seen through her hand-painted eyes, the 19th-century world is a miraculous and usually wonderful place, with some mysteries never to be fathomed. Rachel Fields wrote this Newbery Medal-winner in 1929; 70 years later Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers did what to some is the unthinkable: they adapted the classic. In their defense, they did a gorgeous job and did in fact give Hitty a much-needed new lease on life. As Wells says in her note to the reader, "no one I spoke to had actually read Hitty in at least thirty years, and that seemed a real shame."
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Of course, as in any adaptation, something of the original is lost. Wells even makes a few significant changes to the story. But purists take note: Wells has the utmost respect for the importance of Hitty, and Susan Jeffers's richly imagined illustrations are definitely worthy of this classic. Don't let another hundred years slip by without reading this gem! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
Rosemary Wells, the author and illustrator of more than fifty books, has created such beloved characters as Max and Ruby and Yoko. She helped promote national literacy with her book Read to Your Bunny and illustrated the best-selling My Very First Mother Goose, edited by Iona Opie.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0689817169
- ISBN 13 9780689817168
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
- IllustratorSusan Jeffers
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