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Rachel Field's Hitty
Her First Hundred Years
By Wells, Rosemary & Field, Rachel & Jeffers, Susan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68981-716-8
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2000
Gr 1-5 Purists may balk at this revision of the 1930 Newbery winner, but many modern readers will be charmed by this repackaged memoir of a century-old wooden doll. Many of Field's characters, destinations, and phrases remain intact, and Wells does an admirable job of matching her voice. Hitty's story still begins with a peddler's carved gift for a sea captain's daughter and concludes with the doll's anticipation of future adventures as she views a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
