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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years is a children's novel written by Rachel Field and published in 1929. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1930. The book is told from the point of view of an inanimate doll named Hitty (short for Mehitabel ), who was constructed in the 1820s and traveled around the world ...
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years received the Newbery Award in 1930, for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." [8] As a publicity stunt, Field was informed of her win via radio by a group of librarians and ALA President Milton J. Ferguson who were flying in a second plane as Field flew from New Mexico to Los Angeles.
After 12,000 Years; Alice and the Lost Novel; Arundel (novel) B. ... Hitty, Her First Hundred Years; J. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz; The Jumping-Off Place; L. Laughing Boy ...
"Mehitable Lamb", a short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman about a girl by this name. [2]The alley cat "Mehitabel" of Don Marquis's fictional writings, Archy and Mehitabel. [3]A doll named Mehitabel (Hitty) in Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1930), the Newbery Medal-winning children's novel written by Rachel Field.
Rachel Field – Hitty, Her First Hundred Years; Erich Kästner – Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive) Eric P. Kelly – The Trumpeter of Krakow; William Maxwell Reed – The Earth for Sam; the story of mountains, rivers, dinosaurs and men (non-fiction)
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born in Albany, New York, April 16, 1891 to Ida Pulis Lathrop and Cyprus Clark Lathrop. [1] Her sister was artist Gertrude K. Lathrop. [1]During a prolific career spanning from 1919 to 1967, she used her artistic skills as an illustrator of other authors’ children's fictional literature: more than 38 books were published with her illustrations.
Solitude traces the rise and fall of a family, a house, a town—and, in its most conspicuous layer of symbolism, a civilization—over the course of, yes, 100 years. In the early 19th century ...
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years; The Holder of the World; An Honorable Profession; I. The Idiot (Batuman novel) An Imperative Duty; In the Belly of the Bloodhound ...