And along with the dolls, you also get the stories of the children whose dolls they are. So basically what you get is 468 pages of the most beautiful doll goodness you can imagine. This is an anthology of all of Godden's doll stories, and it contains the following stories (with original dates of publication) What could the poor doll do? Four beautiful stories, brought together in book by a superb storyteller.(Publisher).Oh goodness, if you (or a young reader you know) are at all a fan of dolls, and dollhouses, and making tiny stuff, and like excellent stories that incorporate such things, RUN to get yourself (and the young reader) a copy of The Fairy Doll & Other Tales from the Doll's House, by Rumer Godden (out in paperback this month from Macmillan Children's Books). Then came the day when rich, spoiled Clementina stole Candy Floss.

She loved her life, and her friends - Jack himself, Nuts the dog and Cocoa the horse. How could these wishes come true? Candy Floss belonged to Jack who had a fairground coconut stand. Their story is about wishing - for Holly wished very much that she could be a Christmas present, and leave the toyshop where Abracadabra the owl frightened her, and Ivy wished for a grandmother who would give her a real home. Could it be magic? Holly was a doll, and Ivy was a little girl. But with the Fairy Doll to help, she found that gradually she could do all these things, and more. The other children teased and ignored her. She was untidy, late and she couldn't ride a bicycle. I Elizabeth, the youngest child, who was always in trouble. What would happen if ever he had to give her back to the little girl whose doll she really was? The Fairy Doll had been with the family for a very long time. But Impunity Jane didn't belong to Gideon. She hated living sedately in a doll's house, and when Gideon took her off adventuring with Joe and his gang she was blissfully happy and lived in Gideon's pocket, with all kinds of interesting objects and the snail Ann Rushout.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: Impunity Jane was a pocket doll. Front hinge is beginning to start, with connective mesh visible at title page. Bound in orange paper over baords with spine backed in blue and lettered in gilt. 1 1/2' and 1/2' tears to top edge of jacket. Wear to price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges.

Impunity Jane by Rumer Godden