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: I like space too, but it turns out I can get basically the same information in half the time because it's a slow video.]
gollark: You are clearly more patient than me.
gollark: This is cool at 2x speed.
gollark: Or humans or some other species will beat entropy, hack the universe and stop anything from dying ever.
gollark: I mean, ultimately, long after the last stars burn out, the fuel of giant stars of the bright, early universe we live in having long been exhausted, giving way to red dwarves which will themselves slowly fade to black, the matter in them having decayed (possibly), there will be nothing but slowly evaporating black holes. And eventually even these will vanish, leaving nothing but electromagnetic radiation being slowly redshifted, with no energy gradients able to sustain life.
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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