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Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rosemary Wells, Rachel Field, Susan Jeffers
pkadams's review
3.0
The team of Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers is perhaps my favorite children's duo out there. The stories are always well written and pleasing to the ear as a read aloud. Susan Jeffers is a wonderful illustrator that provides richness and color to all of her pages. Although this is based upon the book by Rachel Field, it still has a lot of Wells and Jeffers magic.
kienie's review
3.0
It's very pretty, but I didn't really get much out of it. I know a doll's POV is limited, but that's what the suspension of disbelief is for.
sandyd's review
4.0
To my surprise, I really enjoyed this classic. It has a few dated passages (and some stereotypes I describe in more detail here: http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/hitty-aka-mehitabel.html ), but overall, I thought it was a charming, fast-moving story.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
2.0
Copyright date: 1929…Odd to think that my mother might have run across this book as a little girl and read it….I remember reading it myself as a little girl. Like many of the older Newbery books, it is a vision into the past, a little trip into life for kids before TV and computers and IPods.
Hitty is a wooden doll made in the early 1800’s. Her underpants are embroidered with her name and along the way she becomes the most literate of dolls. One girl after another owns her, though her painted features fade and her various dresses come and go. She has a series of exciting adventures: she lands in a tree, in a shipwrecked, on a deserted island worshipped as an idol (!), on a steamship, under the cushion of an old couch, in an exhibition, and, finally, in an antique store. She manages to survive all her adventures with her dignity intact, finding a way to take pleasure in even the least interesting of her situations.
Hitty is a wooden doll made in the early 1800’s. Her underpants are embroidered with her name and along the way she becomes the most literate of dolls. One girl after another owns her, though her painted features fade and her various dresses come and go. She has a series of exciting adventures: she lands in a tree, in a shipwrecked, on a deserted island worshipped as an idol (!), on a steamship, under the cushion of an old couch, in an exhibition, and, finally, in an antique store. She manages to survive all her adventures with her dignity intact, finding a way to take pleasure in even the least interesting of her situations.
melerihaf's review
4.0
It's old-fashioned now, but it's still a charming story about a beloved doll. I enjoyed it, but I was also 18 when I read it, so I don't know how younger kids would react to it.
satyridae's review
1.0
Aieee, this is not the real book! This is an ugly, pointless rewrite and I hate it with all the breath in my body.
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