Then, she finds herself uncannily sucked into the dollhouse, a minuscule figure in an open-faced house with only a plastic turkey in the kitchen and beds made out of covered wooden blocks. Vicky's house soon descends into arguments and misery, which leads to her acting that out on her dolls-making the mother doll and father doll fight, in particular. This is the story of Vicky, a little girl who receives an antique dollhouse for her birthday, a parenting decision that very often spells no good and goes here about as well as you'd expect. "Aha," said the aunt doll softly, her smiling mouth not moving at all. Creepy dolls and Sleator sounded like a good combination, my e-library had it, and as a very short children's book, it took me about half an hour to read, so you're getting a quick turnaround on this one. An early Newbery Medal winner about a doll who packs a great deal of adventure into her “first hundred years.This morning, I read Dan's review of Kate's House and Aimee mentioned this book in a comment. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. But as a child I loved the world he portrayed, both inside Marcella’s nursery and out of it.Ħ.
Gruelle’s writing very easy to read aloud it feels stilted and arch. As I mentioned the other day, I don’t find Mr. May I count a toy rabbit as a doll? Kate di Camillo’s melancholy The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, which captivated us as we drove across Oklahoma and Missouri last summer, seems to me to deserve a place on this list.ĥ. But I remember the delicious chill up my spine when I (around age eleven) first encountered the sinister gleam in the eyes of that doll family out for revenge.Ĥ. NOT a hit with everyone here: decidedly too creepy for some. Creating a house for two homesick Japanese dolls helps a girl get over her own homesickness.
Has probably been read a cumulative total of thirty times by my three oldest daughters. Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden. Rose went through a long period of attachment to this book after I made her a (highly imperfect) cloth doll when she was seven or eight years old.Ģ.
What else? Rebecca Caudill’s The Best-Loved Doll, of course! I adored this book as a child I found the girl’s devotion to her scuffed-up, faded, frazzle-haired doll deeply touching and believable.
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