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Original Title: Miss Hickory
Edition Language: English
Setting: New Hampshire(United States)
Literary Awards: Newbery Medal (1947)
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Miss Hickory Paperback | Pages: 123 pages
Rating: 3.66 | 3649 Users | 246 Reviews

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Title:Miss Hickory
Author:Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Viking Seafarer Edition
Pages:Pages: 123 pages
Published:1968 by The Viking Press (first published 1946)
Categories:Childrens. Fantasy. Fiction

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Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter alone is frightening indeed. In this classic modern day fairy tale, what’s a doll to do?

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This book has it's haters. And I understand. It is a little odd that the character you've come to like looses her head - literally. But ... she is just a little doll made out of twigs and a hickory nut after all. And the story ends well and the getting there was oh so fun and sweet, with little houses in the trees and little neighbor animals. I really enjoyed it and would just say, "don't knock it til you've tried it."Ages: 6+Cleanliness:Children's Bad WordsMild Obscenities & Substitutions -

This book is one of my all tim favorites! I read it a long time ago, but it is great. It shows personification of a doll who is trying to survive a harsh winter. This book won the Newberry Award in 1947.

In this 1947 Newbery Medal award winning book, Miss Hickory is indeed a hard nut to crack. She is a stick figure doll composed of a fork-like twiggy body and a hickory nut for a noggin. Her humble, but clean, abode is made of corncobs nestled beneath a lilac bush.Miss Hickory is deemed alive by the family who made her and the forest animals who befriend her.When the family temporarily moves from New Hampshire to Massachusetts, Miss Hickory is left behind to fend for herself in the bitter cold

"Miss Hickory" won the Newbery in 1947, the year I was born. The author is Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and the illustrator is Ruth Gannett. It only took a few pages before I was sucked into this beyond-quirky story about a doll made of an apple twig with a hickory nut for a head, thus her name. Miss Hickory is a feisty character who's crabby and cranky and much older than the word "doll" would suggest. She lives outdoors in a little corncob house but comes into the family house in the winter. Until

I've learned my lesson. When the Newbery girls all say a book is weird and I, after 50 pages or so, disagree with them and privately think they're getting just a bit too picky with these old children's books, I really should just keep my thoughts to myself until I actually finish the book. Because ending the book by having your main character's (view spoiler)[head eaten by a squirrel (hide spoiler)] -- EVEN IF she was just a little doll made out of a twig -- is a really bad idea. Really, REALLY

Miss Hickory, with her apple-wood twig body and her hickory nut head, stars in this utterly charming New England pastoral fantasy.

I thought this would be a story about a doll. I guess I expected something like Hitty. While Miss Hickory is called a 'doll,' her part in the story is more like a narrator. It's through her thoughts and actions that the reader is given a glimpse of the natural world.There are probably very few children (or young adults for that matter) today who have enough understanding of the natural world to appreciate the story. Here's an example of the writing:Small straight hemlock and spruce trees crowded