Hitty her first 100 years5/26/2023 Hitty's first owner is Phoebe Preble, the daughter of a sea Captain living in Maine. Hitty also made American history come alive for me." 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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