Beginning with the night she was carved out of mountain-ash wood by a peddler, a doll named Hitty recounts the first momentous century of her life. Over the years she is passed from owner to owner, travels across the globe, and survives such horrors as a shipwreck, the bombing of Charlestown during the Civil War, and the ridicule of finely-dressed French dolls.
While following her exciting and amusing adventures, young readers will learn about what life was like in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; will see war from two sides; will get a glimpse of slavery; will even meet such luminaries as Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. When the book ends, with Hitty in a pawn shop window, readers will be eager to read about her next 100 years . . .
