About this title: Over the hundred years of this chronicle, a doll named Hitty travels all over the world, witnesses wars, is dropped, stolen, has a number of different owners, and observes changes in manners and styles. Winner of the 1930 Newbery Medal.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: macmillan
Date Published: 1929
ISBN-13:9780606035842ISBN:0606035842
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Library binding. 262 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Good. 0440403375 Good condition Soft cover book, some spine creases and edge/corner rubs, this book is Good! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780689822841ISBN:0689822847
Description: Lathrop, Dorothy P. Very Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 235 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Trumpet Club, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780440841135ISBN:0440841135
Description: Lathrop, Dorothy P. Good + First printing of this paperback edition. Originaly published in 1929 by Macmillan Publishing Company. Small book plate on the inside of the front cover and blacked out name. read more
Description: Very Good. 0440403375 Very Good Condition, No Markings, highlighting or notes, ** Satisfaction Guaranteed ** Orders ship same or next business day. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"The team of Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers is perhaps my favorite children's duo out there. The stories are always well written and pleasing to the ear as a read aloud. Susan Jeffers is a wonderful illustrator that provides richness and color to all of her pages. Although this is based upon the book by Rachel Field, it still has a lot of Wells and Jeffers magic."
"Hitty is a doll carved out of lucky mountain-ash wood by a peddler. Her first owner is a young girl named Phoebe Preble. Hitty ends up accompanying Phoebe's family on her father's whaling ship, and that is only the beginning of Hitty's adventures. The concept of the book is cute: a doll telling her life's story, or at least the story of the first hundred years. Unfortunately, this 1930 Newbery Winner loses something with age. The story is charming, but it is easy to get lost in some of the language. There is a recent adaptation of the story (written by Rosemary Wells), but PLCMC does not own it, so I was not able to compare. I liked the book, but would recommend it only to really good readers who will not mind the older language."
"I had completely forgotten about this book until I was searching for "One Hundred Years of Solitude." I absolutely adored this book when I was little and believe it was one of the first books that I remember reading entirely on my own."
"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 features fade and her various dresses come and go. She has a series of exciting adventures: she lands in a tree, in a shipwrecked, on a deserted island worshipped as an idol (!), on a steamship, under the cushion of an old couch, in an exhibition, and, finally, in an antique store. She manages to survive all her adventures with her dignity intact, finding a way to take pleasure in even the least interesting of her situations."
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