Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

First published in 1929 and winner of the 1930 Newbery Medal, “Hitty, Her First Hundred Years” is Rachel Field’s children’s novel concerning an inanimate but conscious wooden doll named Mehitabel, or Hitty. Hitty’s life begins when she is carved from the magical wood of the Mountain Ash tree, in the early nineteenth century by Phineas Black, a peddler, for the daughter of the Preble family, Phoebe. Hitty travels with the Preble family, whose father is the captain of a whaling ship, from the...