A review by mjfmjfmjf
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

4.0

Newbery read/re-read continues. And this one is a surprisingly good read given its age and subject. We follow Hitty, a handmade doll from Maine, in her mostly accidental travels around the world. And yet it doesn't devolve into a travelogue or a history. And never grows tiresome. We see rich and poor and it's never racist or even mean-spirited in its language. It never quite reaches to insightful, but still a pretty good read. 3.5 of 5.