Among the works Rachel Field (1894 – 1942) created for children, the most celebrated and enduring is Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929.

Written in the voice of a 100-year-old doll telling her life story, it gave Field the distinction of being the first woman to win a Newbery Medal (1930). It also received the acclaimed Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.

Hitty enjoyed a long life in print. The 1959 MacMillan Company version (which went into several editions over the next several decades), with the original illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop, describes the book as follows: Read More→