Hitty dolls

Hittys are wooden dolls based on the doll in the book Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. The original Hitty doll upon whom the book is based is six and one-quarter inches tall and carved from white ash wood. This doll is presently in the Stockbridge Library Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hittys, however, are generous in allowing other dolls to be considered a "Hitty", and it is not uncommon today to find Hittys made from wood, cloth, resin, or even porcelain, so long as they are created in a similar style to the original Hitty doll.

For further reading, please refer to:

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (1929) by Rachel Field: The original book.
"Where Is Hitty?" by Dottie Baker in Doll Reader (February/March 1986).
"'Hitty' Is Found!" by Nancy Reinhart Charlton in Doll Reader (August/September 1988).
"Hitty's Legacy" by Dottie Baker in Doll Reader (October 1994).
"Hitty approaches the Millennium" by Virginia Ann Heyerdahl in Doll Reader (November 1998).
"Dolls and Books: A celebration of 'Doll' Fiction" by Dian Zillner and Marianne Clay in Doll Reader (June/July 2003).
"Travels with My Hitty" by Kathy Witt in Dolls (October 2003).
"Hello Hitty" by Trina Laube in Dolls (October 2003).
"Hitty, Storied Sweetheart" by Virginia Ann Heyerdahl in Doll Reader (May 2005).