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Rachel Field's Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Hardcover - 1999

by Rosemary Wells; Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)


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Hitty Her First Hundred Years is a memoir written in the voice of a doll, Mehitabel, Hitty for short, constructed in 1822 from the wood of a Mountain Ash tree from Ireland by a peddler stranded during a winter storm at a house in Maine. After giving the doll to the young daughter of the house,  Phoebe, whose father is a captain on a whaling ship, Hitty embarks on many adventures throughout the world, meeting many interesting people along the way.

The adventures of Hitty were inspired by a doll purchased by the author, Rachel Fields, which now resides at the Stockbridge Library Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hitty was awarded the Newbery Medal for Excellence in 1930.


Hitty was rewritten by Susan Jeffers and Rosemary Wells in 1999, updated, simplified, and released as Rachel Field’s Hitty, and with an addition of the doll’s experiences during the American Civil War.

From the publisher

Based on the 1930 Newberry Award Winner On a cold Maine night in 1829, an old peddler carved a small doll out of a piece of mountain ash wood. Her name was Hitty and she was no ordinary doll. Hitty's first owner, Phoebe Preble, takes her from Boston to India. From the hands of Phoebe Preble, Hitty travels on with a snake charmer, a Civil War soldier, a riverboat captains daughter, and a former slave. Along the way she meets presidents and painters, relating each adventure in vivid detail. Rachel Field's masterful novel Hitty: Her First Hundred Years was first published in 1929; it was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1930. In this full-color adaptation, the award-winning team of Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers has taken Hitty down from the shelf and dusted her off for a new generation of younger readers. The short, fast-paced chapters and pictures on every spread bring life to this beloved classic, and make it perfect for sharing with the whole family.

First Edition Identification

First published in 1929 by MacMillan with red decorative cloth. 

Details

  • Title Rachel Field's Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
  • Author Rosemary Wells; Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition first edition
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780689817168 / 0689817169
  • Weight 2.06 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.93 x 10.37 x 0.57 in (30.30 x 26.34 x 1.45 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Reading level 880
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97018683
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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