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MISS HICKORY.
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin (1875-1961), Illustrated by Ruth Gannett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in a fair dust jacket with some overall rubbing and wear, price-clipped./fair
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: The Viking Press,, 1946 (1947). Hardcover -. Very good in a fair dust jacket with some overall rubbing and wear, price-clipped.. 2nd printing. A very early printing of this delightful story of a little wooden doll, winner of the Newbery Award in 1947. "When Great-granny Brown packed up and moved to the Women's City Club in Boston, Miss Hickory was faced with the problem of spending a severe New Hampshire winter alone. This might not have been so bad if Miss Hickory had not been a country woman whose body was an apple-wood twig and whose head was a hickory nut. This is the story of how she suvived those months, in the company of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, Ground Hog, and a host of others." Illustrated throughout with charming lithographs by Ruth Gannett. 123 pp.
Synopsis
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
Like Rabbit Hill and Charlotte's Web, it's a cute little story about animals that talk.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75413
- Title
- MISS HICKORY.
- Author
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin (1875-1961), Illustrated by Ruth Gannett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a fair dust jacket with some overall rubbing and wear, price-clipped.
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1946 (1947)
- Keywords
- newbery award, new england, new hampshire,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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