Title: Miss Hickory
First published: 1946
Description: Miss Hickory, a country doll made from an apple-wood twig, is left behind when her owner goes to Boston. She is helped through the long 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. Newbery Award winner. Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (illustrator of *My Father's Dragon*).
Subjects: Children's stories, Country life, Juvenile fiction, Dolls, Fiction, Newbery Medal, Children's literature, Animals, Accelerated Reader, New hampshire, fiction, Dolls, fiction, Children's fiction