hitty her first hundred years by rachel field

Anyone who wasn't white and Christian was viewed as inherently inferior. The modern reader will likely find it somewhat offensive that South Seas island natives are referred to as savages and heathens, and will find it highly offensive, as I did, on the mercifully few pages where Southern black characters speak in dialect. Sensibilities and what was considered acceptable were much different then. Literally.Īnd apart from a couple of major caveats, it's not bad. Read! The book is a product of its time and would shock a lot of people since it is very politically incorrect at times. I am amazed at the detail in a book written for children, but this was when it was fashionable to And what an adventurous life it was! She is lost in the woods, captured by cannibals when the whaler’s ship capsizes, spends quite some time in Indian, and eventually ends up back in the United States where she has even more adventures and finally ends up in an antique shop. However, it caught my attention at the Catholic Social Services Thrift store, and I finally read it and I enjoyed it! What a difference 60 plus years can make!! Hitty is a wooden doll carved for a little girl in Maine in the 1800s who tells us the story of her doll’s life. I tried to read it, but just couldn’t get into it and avoided it in my Kitty Lit class. I remember a librarian giving me this book when I was in the first or second grade and asked for a book about dolls.

Hitty her first hundred years by rachel field