Miss Hickory
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| Author | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
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| Illustrator | Ruth Gannett |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Released | 1946 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 124 pp |
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
[edit] Plot introduction
The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made from a forked twig of an apple tree with a hickory nut head. She lives in a tiny 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 they forget to take her along. 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.
| Preceded by Strawberry Girl |
Newbery Medal recipient 1947 |
Succeeded by The Twenty-One Balloons |
