The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

According to Ruth Hill Viguers Field was "fifteen when Rachel Field first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Nicholas Magazine. Field also won a National Book Award Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

Field also won a National Book Award Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty Her First Hundred Years.