Miss Hickory
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
 First edition | |
| Author | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Ruth Gannett |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 124 pp |
Plot introduction
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.
gollark: You don't. God DOES. They are omnipotent. Definitionally, they can do and can know anything.
gollark: (this is a different argument to "does said god actually exist" obviously, but the evidence there seems to be bad too)
gollark: I don't think they should be all-judging, and I don't think eternal torture is right ever.
gollark: The Islamic god is claimed to be omnipotent, I think. Thus, they know *in advance* if someone is going to go to hell or not when they're created or whatever. And then create them/allow them to be created *anyway*, knowing they're bound for eternal torture because a system they created makes them get eternally tortured. Just... why?
gollark: I consider eternal torture unethical *anyway*, but given the situation with god it's even worse.
External links
- The Newbery Companion by John Thomas Gillespie and Corinne J. Naden, Libraries Unlimited, 2001, Miss Hickory, pages 141-4, synopsis, themes and background.
- A reference site for Carolyn Sherwin Bailey's book Miss Hickory
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Strawberry Girl |
Newbery Medal recipient 1947 |
Succeeded by The Twenty-One Balloons |
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