Insight into creating Hitty dolls was offered last month at the last BCL Centennial Celebration event staged by the Friends of the Library. Hitty, a hand carved wooden doll, was featured in the novel written by Rachel Field, who won the Newberry Medal for excellence in American children’s literature in 1930. |a United States |x Social life and customs |y 19th century |v Juvenile fiction. |a Wooden toys |z United States |x History |y 19th century |v Juvenile fiction. |a Tells the adventures on land and sea of a doll named Hitty and her owner, Phoebe Preble.
In which I return to familiar scenes - 17. In which I learn much of plantations, post offices, and pin cushions - 16. In which I end my hay-days and begin a new profession - 15. In which I spend a disastrous New Year's and return to New England - 14. In which I go into camphor, reach New York, and become a doll of fashion - 13. In which I sit for my daguerreotype and meet a poet - 12. In which I am rescued and hear Adelina Patti - 11.
In which I have another child to play with me - 10.
In which I learn the ways of gods, natives, and monkeys - 8. In which I join the fishes and rejoin the Prebles - 7. In which we strike our first and last whales - 6. In which I go up in the world and am glad to come down again - 3. |a Hitty : |b her first hundred years / |c by Rachel Field with illustratons by Dorothy P.
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