Miss Hickory

{{Short description|1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey}} {{No footnotes|date=January 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | name = Miss Hickory | title_orig = | translator = | image = Miss Hickory.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | illustrator = Ruth Chrisman Gannett | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Children's novel | publisher = Viking Press | release_date = 1946 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 124 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Miss Hickory''''' is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.

==Plot introduction== The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made from a forked twig from an apple tree and a hickory nut for her head (hence her name). She lives in a tiny doll house made of corncobs outside the home of her human owners. Her world is shaken when the family decides to spend the winter in Boston, Massachusetts, but leave her behind. Miss Hickory is aided during the long cold 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.

==External links== {{Portal|Children's literature}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=bzeHhAwuM6UC ''The Newbery Companion'' by John Thomas Gillespie and Corinne J. Naden, Libraries Unlimited, 2001], ''Miss Hickory'', pages 141–4, synopsis, themes and background.

{{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{succession box|title=Newbery Medal recipient|before=''Strawberry Girl''|after=''The Twenty-One Balloons''|years=1947}} {{s-end}}

Category:Newbery Medal–winning works Category:1946 American novels Category:1946 English-language novels Category:American children's novels Category:Children's fantasy novels Category:Novels about sentient toys Category:Viking Press books Category:1946 children's books