Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1947 Winner & Honorees

Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is make out of corncobs. But Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near the end of those cold, dark months, something unexpected happens to Miss Hickory--something even more welcome than the coming of spring.

A giant five-thousand-year-old Sequoia, called Wa-No-Na by the Indians, tells its life story.

This delightful, long-out-of-print children's book was originally published in 1946. It brought together two great talents from the heyday of The New Yorker: William Maxwell, associate editor and frequent contributor, and Ilonka Karasz, whose magical illustrations graced many covers of the publication, especially at Christmas time. The story is a touching parable of a family who go away on vacation, leaving their farm, pets, and livestock home alone, to be taken care of by the signs of the zodiac.