{"first_publish_date": "1999", "description": "When I was young one of the stories I loved best was Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. As it turned out, Hitty was also a favorite of my friend and colleague, Susan Jeffers. Susan wanted to illustrate it with bright, new, colorful pictures. She asked me if I could shorten the story for a new audience. What I have done with Hitty is much like weeding a beautiful garden. I have cut the length, as I would prune a rose, but the interesting part came as Hitty was about to make her way south just before the Civil War. I said to myself, \"What if Ruth had indeed packed Hitty up and sent her behind Confederate lines?\" You will have to read the book to find out the answer. - Note to the reader.", "title": "Rachel Field's Hitty, her first hundred years", "covers": [434642], "lc_classifications": ["PZ7.W46843 Rac 1999"], "key": "/works/OL32866W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL4427001A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL949446A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Dolls", "Fiction", "Children's fiction", "Dolls, fiction"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T02:04:21.803530"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-04-17T02:08:17.217874"}}