Miss Hickory by Carolyn S. Bailey

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       The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made of 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. 

• Miss Hickory read aloud by Ron McCoy
• Miss Hickory Unit Study and Printables
• How to craft Miss Hickory in Her Gingham Dress
• How to make Miss Hickory - Patterns and instructions from Illustrated Miscellany in her fall leaf costume
• How to make dangling nut head people

About The Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 - December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines. She published volumes of stories for children like methods of story telling, teaching children and other related subjects, which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Hero Stories (1919); and The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945). She wrote For the Children's Hour (1906) in collaboration with Clara M. Lewis. In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal.

• Full text of Hero Stories, Milton Bradley Company, 1919.
• Works by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey at Project Gutenberg

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