The Surprise Doll
Published in 1949, this is a cute story of a little blond haired American girl with 6 dolls, each from a different country that her father has sailed to. But she wants one more....a doll for every day of the week....
 | author: Morrell Gipson rating:  asin: 193090018X binding: Hardcover list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $10.20 USD |
For more than half a century children have been captivated with the story of Mary and her dolls. Mary’s father was a sea captain who took long trips across the ocean, bringing back a doll from each journey. Soon Mary had six dolls and wished for a seventh one to become her "Sunday" doll. But Mary’s father said six dolls were enough for any girl, so she set off to visit the Dollmaker and, oh, was she in for a surprise!
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Big Susan
This is a really sweet story of how the dolls in a young girl's dollhouse come to life on the night before Christmas. Our (then) 6 year old enjoyed it so much that she had me read it to her twice in the time we had it checked out from the library – each time it took 3 or 4 days to read it. What I enjoyed most was how kind all the family members were to each other and how enthusiastic and grateful they were. Susan is the little girl who carefully moves them and speaks for them, and they think very highly of her. This year, for Christmas, they have received a little baby, who they call Little Susan. " 'This year we got something better – oh! A million times better!' said all the children together. 'We got you, Little Susan! We got you!'"
 | rating:  asin: 1930900066 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $12.89 USD |
Mr. and Mrs. Doll and their six children, Nurse and the old Cook all lived in a house which had no front and belong to Susan. Susan was just an ordinary-sized little girl with taffy colored pigtails. But to the dolls she was a very Big, very Wonderful, very Important Person. There was one short night in every year when they needed no help from Susan - that Wonderful Night when all Dolls come alive and can speak.
The Story of Holly and Ivy
A story of a little orphan girl who yearns for a doll and a gradmother, and gets off the train at the wrong stop to find them. Thankfully, in that town is a doll who years for a girl and a woman who years for a child...
 | author: Rumer Godden rating: asin: 0670062197 binding: Hardcover list price: $17.99 USD amazon price: $12.23 USD |
Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she’s sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday. Can all three wishes come true? This festive tale is perfectly complemented by beloved Barbara Cooney’s luminous illustrations, filled with the warm glow of the Christmas spirit.
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
 | author: Gloria Houston rating:  asin: 0140558772 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Acclaimed author Gloria Houston has written a tale that is as joyful and timeless as Christmas itself. Jewel-like paintings by two-time Caldecott Medal winner Barbara Cooney capture all of the season's warmth and mountain flavor. "A heartwarming holiday story, simply told and graced with true sentiment rather than sentimentality."--Kirkus Reviews. Publisher's Weekly Bestseller. Booklist Best Books of the Decade. Full color.
The Doll People
 | author: Ann M. Martin Laura Godwin HPFC rating:  asin: 0786812400 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.
Betty Doll
 | rating: asin: 014240196X binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Young Mary Ellen is heartbroken when her family's farmhouse burns to the ground, taking all five of her dolls with it. So when her mother announces that they are going to make her a new doll, she is overjoyed. But little does she know that Betty Doll will travel with her as her closest confidant through her whole life, watching as first Mary Ellen grows up, then her children, and her grandchildren. Along the way, Betty is privy to family events big and small: a devastating blizzard, tea parties, weddings, floods, illness, births, deaths, and war.
Meanest Doll in the World, The
 | author: Ann M. Martin Laura Godwin rating: asin: 0786852976 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far deeper trouble than they imagined. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all. Mean Mimi is mean-really mean-and she's determined to rule all of Dollkind or else destroy it. Will the world ever be safe for dolls again? In this masterfully plotted sequel, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's ingenious black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another nonstop adventure from a doll's eye view!
Hardbound Book - Raggedy Ann Stories By Johnny Gruelle
Each page has a small/large color illustration, so this is the perfect beginning chapter book - though we just read one story at a sitting and never went in any particular order. These are the classic stories (written roughly 80 years ago) about Raggedy, the endlessly cheerful doll and her adventures.
 | rating: asin: B000SOVW3W binding: Unknown Binding |
Synopsis: A collection of Raggedy Ann stories, including "Raggedy Ann Rescues Fido," and "Raggedy Ann and the Kittens."
Publisher's Note:
Among the well-loved stories in this volume are how Marcella discover Raggedy Ann, the tale that explains the origin of her candy heart, her adventures on the rivers with a kite, and the dolls' rescue of Fido.
Raggedy Ann Stories includes the tale of Raggedy Ann's arrival in Marcella's nursery, the origin of her candy heart, the rescue of Fido, and other stories in which Raggedy Ann leads the dolls by her generous example. Full-color illustrations.
THE LITTLE WOODEN DOLL by Margery Williams Bianco, with pictures by Pamela Bianco (1953 Small format Hardcover 6.5 x 5 inches,
This book was so tiny and the chapters so short that we read it in one sitting. It is the story of a very old doll who sits in the attic, lonely for children. However, when some find her they reject her because she has no clothes or hair. So the little animals and insects create these for her and carry her to a home where there is a little girl who appreciates her. Short and sweet.
 | author: Margery Williams Bianco rating: asin: B001LZOURW binding: Hardcover |
THE LITTLE WOODEN DOLL by Margery Williams Bianco, with pictures by Pamela Bianco (1953 Small format Hardcover 6.5 x 5 inches, 67 pages. Macmillan Publishing Co., NY)
Hitty Her First Hundred Years
Published in 1929 this book is a classic, a story of a wooden doll carved in the early 1800s. In 262 pages we read about her first 100 years, being lost and found by one little girl after another. Her adventures were fascinating and the girls (ages 5 & 8) begged for more each time. In each chapter we encountered at least 2 words we had to look up in the dictionary. This is an outstanding story! We each give it 5 stars.
 | author: Rachel Field rating: asin: 0689822847 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
Presented for the first time in audio, here are the charming and adventurous memoirs of an exceptional doll named Hitty. Her story begins in Maine in the early 1800s, where she is transformed from a piece of sturdy mountain-ash wood into the valued playmate of a young girl named Phoebe Preble. When the inseparable pair join Phoebe's father on a journey aboard his whaling ship, Hitty's one hundred years of exciting adventures begins! Join this doll of great charm and character as she travels all over the world, from India to Philadelphia to New York. Whether she is traveling with a snake charmer, attending the opera, meeting Charles Dickens, becoming a doll of fashion, posing as an artists' model, or being stolen away on a Mississippi riverboat, one thing is certain... no doll has led a life like Hitty's! The 1930 Newbery Award winner.
