Audiobook Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Cold. Wind. Wood. Nut.
Miss Hickory's world shrinks.
Apple-wood twig body. Hickory nut head.
Left behind. Ann gone to Boston.
New Hampshire winter waits. Outside.
No more soft hands. No more safe shelf.
Just wind through bare branches.
That's the story. The quiet terror.
The audiobook makes it breathe.
Not a whisper. A sigh.
The narrator's voice-low, steady-like a hearth fire crackling.
You hear the creak of the porch swing she's left on.
The thump of a snowflake landing.
You feel the tiny weight of her.
How small she is. How real.
Her fear isn't loud. It's the silence between snowflakes.
The way she tests the cold air with her twig fingers.
The way she listens for Ann's footsteps on the path.
Not a fairy tale with magic wands.
This is magic in the ordinary.
The courage of a doll who stays put.
Who finds wonder in a single hickory nut shell.
Who learns the snow isn't just cold.
It's a blanket.
The wind isn't just noise.
It's a story.
The audiobook doesn't rush it.
It lets the quiet settle.
Let the cold sink in.
You hear the scratch of her twig moving on the floor.
The tap of her nut head against a rock.
You don't just hear the story.
You feel the wood grain under your own skin.
You remember your own smallness.
That moment when the world felt vast.
When a single leaf was a landscape.
When being left behind felt like the end of everything.
And then-
A sound. A sound you almost missed.
The soft creak of the door opening.
Not Ann.
But something else. Something waiting.
The audiobook holds that breath.
For a long time.
You hold it too.
Then the story moves on.
But the quiet stays.
It stays in your chest.
Like the memory of a warm hearth.
After the fire's gone out.
You don't need to be a child to feel it.
You just need to remember how it feels to be small.
And not alone.
Breathe.
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