| "MISS HICKORY"
Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Interest Level: Middle Grades (4-8)
ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
AR Points: 4.0
Publisher Recommended Age: 7-12
Publisher: Penguin/Puffin
Book Type: Paperback
Pages: 128
Book Description:
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made from a forked twig from an apple tree and a hickory nut for her head (hence her name). She lives in a tiny doll house made of corncobs outside the home of her human owners. Her world is shaken when the family decides to spend the winter in Boston, Massachusetts, but leave her behind.
Miss Hickory is aided during the long cold winter by several farm and forest animals. Prickly and a little stubborn, she slowly learns to accept help from others, and to offer some assistance herself.
Book Reviews:
New York Times: "Children will thoroughly enjoy the inventive details of Miss Hicory's life in the orchard and her adventures...(the story's) charm is heightened by sympathetic illustrations."
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About the Author:
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896.
She contributed to the Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines, and published volumes of stories for children, methods of story telling, methods of teaching children, etc., which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Flint; The Story of a Trail (1922); and Friendly Tales (1923). She wrote For the Children's Hour (1906) in collaboration.
In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal. |
