An early Newbery Medal winner about a doll who packs a great deal of adventure into her “first hundred years.

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. Among the Dolls Sleator, William Published by Random House Books for Young Readers(1991) ISBN 10: 0679803475ISBN 13: 9780679803478 NewPaperback Quantity: 1 Seller: GoldenDragon (Houston, TX, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. Gruelle’s writing very easy to read aloud it feels stilted and arch. When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike shes expecting, Vicky is disappointed. As I mentioned the other day, I don’t find Mr. A Caldecott Honor recipient, science fiction author William Sleator presents 'a fast-paced, chilling fantasy' (Booklist) of one girls unexpected adventure beyond her imagaination. 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. Escher, which provided the novels title and setting, in a psychological exploitation of a social dynamics experiment. Creating a house for two homesick Japanese dolls helps a girl get over her own homesickness. House of Stairs (1974) is a science fiction novel by William Sleator about orphaned teenagers placed in a house of stairs, similar to the lithograph print by M. Has probably been read a cumulative total of thirty times by my three oldest daughters. An edition of Among the dolls (2007) Among the dolls by William Sleator 5. 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.

Among the Dolls by William Sleator