Miss Hickory
Caroline Sherwin Bailey
lithographs by Ruth Chrisman Gannett 1946
Definitely an odd book, originally published in 1946, but maybe that was why we liked it. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey even won a Newberry Award for it.
Miss Hickory is a doll made out of an apple wood twig with a hickory nut head. When she gets left behind in the yard she learns to fend for herself, setting up home in an old robin's nest and making new clothes using pine needles to sew. Soon she is acclimating to her new life out in nature and the animal characters she meets (including Squirrel who may want to be her friend or eat her head!). She can be a cranky fussbudget at times, but she is resourceful and thoughtful. Although she meets an unusual end, there's something sweetly charming about her story.
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