Illustrated by Barbara McClintockHarper, 2010
HC (a small book) $15.99
64 pgs.
Rating: 4
This quick, quick short read is for any child who believes that dolls have a life of their own. Madison Blackberry envies the lives of her five mismatched dollhouse dolls. They are happy, content, safe, in their lives, and she is unhappy and lonely in hers. So she begins taking things away from them.
The dollhouse and Wildflower, one of the dolls, used to belong to Madison's grandmother, who visits occasionally and still makes wonderful clothes for the dolls and furnishings for the house. When one of the dolls leaves the grandmother a message, she gets clued into her granddaughter's loneliness and life begins to ges better for Madison. And when it gets better for Madison, it gets better for her dolls.
The book starts like this:
"Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene lived in a house from another time, a white house with a red roof and red shutters and a red front door. In the garden was a real bonsai tree and a reflecting pool made from a pocket mirror tucked into a lawn of real moss."
Don't you just love it?
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