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Miss Hickory Paperback - 1977

by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

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A Newbery Award winner!

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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A Newbery Award winner!

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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Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple -wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is made out of corncobs. But Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near the end of those cold, dark months, something unexpected happens to Miss Hickory--something even more welcome than the coming of spring.

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  • Title Miss Hickory
  • Author Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1977-05-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780140309560 / 014030956X
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 870
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Country life, Dolls
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 77001997
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"The adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig, with a hickory nut for a head. The story is told with humor and with an appreciation of the countryside and the seasons. Miss Hickory remains at all times exactly what she is, a doll, yet becomes for the reader a very rich and memorable personality."

About the author

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and spent her childhood in the little Hudson River town of Lansingburg. She studied at Teachers College, Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work and began writing afterward (an activity which eventually produced thirty-five books).

The author and her husband, Dr. Eben C. Hill, lived for many years on Hill Farm, in Temple, New Hampshire, whose antiques and apple orchard inspired the Newbery Medal-winning book Miss Hickory (1947).

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