📚 Hitty: A Chronicle of Her First Century Review

Mom passed her copy on to me and now to her daughter. I buy copies for all my nieces. That's a real treasure. The text is amazing and the illustrations will never be forgotten. I understand that a new version was released, but I can't imagine it would match the original (I haven't heard any good reviews). I have so many great memories from this book: Hitty trapped in a horsehair couch, life with a little Quaker girl, spent weeks in a crow's nest. It brought my own traditional dolls (not…

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…

I have wanted to read Rachel Field's "Hitty: Her First Hundred Years" (nicely illustrated, I believe, in pen and ink by Dorothy P. Lathrop) for some time. A few years ago my mother bought me a reproduction of a Hitty doll by Robert Raikes (a major doll and bear carver, although apparently he no longer makes Hitty dolls). After buying the doll and doing some research, we found the edition. Fields novel with original text and illustrations from 1929. There is another, more recent edition with…