As some Amazon reviewers have pointed out rather uneasily, there's a doll death in the book as a result of Marchpane's machinations. In Godden's novel-length book, The Doll's House, Martin and Godwin's "Meanest Doll in the World" gets some serious competition from an arrogant doll named Marchpane, who disrupts life in a cheery little doll family. But to those of us in the world of children's literature, British writer Godden is famous for her doll stories. To some, Rumer Godden is best known as the author of Black Narcissus, a novel that became a 1947 film starring Deborah Kerr. (Yes, Demi Moore named a daughter after her.) Then there's a famous picture book, William's Doll, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.īut before we talk about a couple of recent doll books, I really think we should consider the grandmaster (high maven?) of doll books, and that would be Rumer Godden. Or to the 1947 winner, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey's Miss Hickory. Or perhaps you go back in time to the 1930 Newbery medalist, Rachel Field's classic Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Martin and Laura Godwin's The Doll People and sequels. When you think of doll books, you probably think of Ann M.
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