Having said that, Hitty: Her First Hundred Yearsfalls somewhat flat. Whatever comes her way, whether happy memories of living in a Christian household and providing hours of fun to Phoebe or shipwreck and capture, the little doll is always cheerful and ready to face what comes next, though she certainly experiences fear and uncertainty. Hitty's matter of fact attitude and quiet humor are immediately endearing. He tells Phoebe Preble that mountain-ash wards off bad luck, a statement we're left to question time and time again as we read Hitty's memoirs.įrom her first adventure trapped for nearly a week under the Preble's church pew to being held hostage in a crow's nest from going to sea in the whaling vessel captained by Phoebe's father to being worshipped by island natives as an idol from a stint in India to sitting on an antique shop shelf, Hitty experiences much more than most dolls, and many humans, too. Hitty is a doll carved from a piece of mountain-ash wood, which the Old Peddler who creates her says is magic. If you think one century of a doll's adventures would make a boring story, you haven't read Hitty: Her First Hundred Years.
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