# Miss Hickory

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{{Short description|1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey}}
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{{Infobox book
| name              = Miss Hickory
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| image             = Miss Hickory.jpg
| caption           = First edition
| author            = [Carolyn Sherwin Bailey](/source/Carolyn_Sherwin_Bailey)
| illustrator       = [Ruth Chrisman Gannett](/source/Ruth_Chrisman_Gannett)
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| country           = United States
| language          = English
| series            = 
| genre             = [Children's novel](/source/Children's_literature)
| publisher         = [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press)
| release_date      = 1946
| media_type        = Print ([Hardback](/source/Hardcover) & [Paperback](/source/Paperback))
| pages             = 124 pp
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'''''Miss Hickory''''' is a 1946 novel by [Carolyn Sherwin Bailey](/source/Carolyn_Sherwin_Bailey) that won the [Newbery Medal](/source/Newbery_Medal) for excellence in [American](/source/United_States) [children's literature](/source/children's_literature) in 1947.

==Plot introduction==
The [protagonist](/source/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](/source/Boston%2C_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==
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*[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.

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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

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