![]() ![]() ![]() So why does it bother me that Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers have attempted to bring a well-loved and award-winning 1929 children's novel to a new generation of readers? For one thing, unlike its folkloric predecessors, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years is not in the public domain. As writers and illustrators turn to folk- and fairy-tale traditions for source material, they simultaneously view the old stories with the fresh eyes of today's culture and bring into the present archetypal stories about the nature of being human. Retelling, updating, and re-illustrating beloved stories of the past have long been practices essential to the development of children's literature. Rosemary Wells Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years illus, by Susan Jeffers 106 pp. ![]()
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