50 in '11: #11
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sakon76Title: Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
Author: Rachel Field
Length: 207 pages
At estate sales I always take a peruse of what books may be on offer. Usually they're not anything I want: religious tracts, medical treaties, thirty-year-old pamphlets on how to best use your insert-new-appliance-here. But sometimes I luck out, usually with interesting cookbooks. More rarely with novels. Almost never with sweet, simple books like this that I want to eventually share with children.
And sweet this is. I'd heard of the book before but never read it. It's the memoirs of a doll named Hitty and her adventures from the early 1800s to the early 1900s (the book was written in 1929) as she passes from owner to owner. The language is simple and charming, as befits a child's toy, and the Christian- and racist-centric viewpoint I tend to fear from old writing nearly entirely absent. (Ask me sometime about my trauma reading Anna Leonowen's books.) I now officially adore Hittie and her story.
Verdict: Recommended.
Author: Rachel Field
Length: 207 pages
At estate sales I always take a peruse of what books may be on offer. Usually they're not anything I want: religious tracts, medical treaties, thirty-year-old pamphlets on how to best use your insert-new-appliance-here. But sometimes I luck out, usually with interesting cookbooks. More rarely with novels. Almost never with sweet, simple books like this that I want to eventually share with children.
And sweet this is. I'd heard of the book before but never read it. It's the memoirs of a doll named Hitty and her adventures from the early 1800s to the early 1900s (the book was written in 1929) as she passes from owner to owner. The language is simple and charming, as befits a child's toy, and the Christian- and racist-centric viewpoint I tend to fear from old writing nearly entirely absent. (Ask me sometime about my trauma reading Anna Leonowen's books.) I now officially adore Hittie and her story.
Verdict: Recommended.
