“It is entertaining and satisfying, and likely to hold the attention of young readers, regardless of their interest in dolls.” - New York Times Book Review Everyone voted that they liked it (AND, it even kept my husband up late one night while he was driving us home from a weekend trip!)" Don't tell him I mentioned this, but even my almost 15 year old boy thought that this was pretty magical and different from anything he'd heard before. This book has a nice mixture of old-fashioned and modern and several generations of family living in the same house. I remember watching Raggedy Ann and Andy and then thinking about my dolls. I think every little girl (and maybe boys too!) wonder about their dolls coming alive when they aren't looking. "This was a very cute and imaginative book and the reader was excellent (the same one who read Inkheart). Sure she’s made entirely of plastic and she’s living in the scariest room in the house, but she’s an adventurer, and after a hundred years of boredom, that’s just what Annabelle needs. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll people, day after day, year after year…until the Funcrafts move in. The 100-year-old Doll family-beautifully crafted china dolls passed down through four generations of girls in one American family-meet their new neighbors, the Funcrafts, a doll family made completely of plastic and delivered straight from the factory shelves.Īnnabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for over a hundred years.
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