Review on 📚 Hitty: A Chronicle of Her First Century by Amy Mcleod

I ordered this book to find out why all doll collectors are so ecstatic. A book about Hitty, a wooden doll carved in the early 1800's, and the story of her owner/lover over a hundred years. This is a book written by Rachel Fields and illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. The real puppet from the book is in the Oriental Puppet Museum. It was written in 1929 and republished in 1957. It won the Newberry Award and is aimed at readers aged 8 to 12, but is still a fun read for all ages. The Hitty has become a must-have doll collector's item and there are numerous sites on the internet dedicated to Hitty collectors. E-Bay is full of sellers and buyers. Hitty is created by an old Irish merchant during a snowstorm and snowstorm in Maine. He brought a piece of mountain ash from Ireland to his new home in America, as the wood was believed to bring good luck. He made a doll for a girl named Phoebe Preble. Phoebe's father was a sea captain and eventually took her and her mother on a whaling expedition. They crash-landed on an island in the South Seas, where Hitty became an idol for the locals. After rescuing the family, Hitty was accidentally lost in India and became the property of a snake charmer, a missionary child, an artist model, a wedding dress model on the Cotton Show, a child on a river boat, a child slave, and finally an uncollected field on the undelivered file letters. Life goes on all these years until she discovers she can tell her story by staying at an antique shop.