Winner · Newbery Medal 1947
Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
book by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Miss Hickory, a country doll made from an apple-wood twig, is left behind when her owner goes to Boston. She is helped through the long winter by several farm and forest animals. Prickly and a little stubborn, she slowly learns to accept help from others, and to offer some assistance herself. Newbery Award winner. Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (illustrator of My Father's Dragon).
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- children's fiction
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