By focusing on Annabelle's and Tiffany Funcraft's risky mission to find Auntie Sarah, the authors provide plenty of action and suspense, yet it is their skillfully crafted details about the dolls' personalities and daily routines that prove most memorable. Following the time-honored traditions of such well-loved works as Rumer Godden's The Doll's House, The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh and Pam Conrad's and Richard Egielski's The Tub People, Martin and Godwin inventively spin out their own variation on the perennially popular theme of toys who secretly come to life. More recently, the modern, plastic Funcraft family has moved into Kate's little sister's room. First, Auntie Sarah Doll suddenly and mysteriously disappeared 45 years ago, when the Doll family belonged to Kate Palmer's grandmother.
While the world outside has changed, their own lives have notDwith two significant exceptions. Passed down from one generation to the next, the Doll family has lived in the same dollhouse, located in the same room of the Palmer family's house, for 100 years. But how will Annabelle and Tiffany find their way back home. could she be Annabelle's long lost baby sister? With time running out before the package is sent back to England, Annabelle and Tiffany resort to the only course of action they can think of-running away.
She's arrived in a mysterious package from London, but her face looks so familiar. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all.īest friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. In this sequel to The Doll People, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft 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. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. Two paper dolls based on the characters are also included in this boxed set.Īnnabelle Doll is eight years old - she has been for more than a hundred years. Martin and Laura Godwin, with illustrations by Caldecott Medal winner Brian Selznick.
Meet Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families in the first three books in The Doll People series by Ann M.
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