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Linda Lipko's Reviews > The Doll People
The Doll People (Doll People, #1)
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If you are looking for something in depth and intellectual, this isn't the book for you, but if you are weary, tired and simply wanting something smooth, delightfully creative, imaginative and unique, then by all means, take a journey through doll land where magic occurs.
A porcelain family of dolls have inhabited an antique doll house for four generations. They come alive during the day when the house is empty and at night when the house is quiet.
There are funny adventures, both inside the doll house where the 100 year old family bangs away at a old fashioned wooden piano singing Aretha Franklin's Respect sockittome. sockitome, sockitome and outside the doll house where they hesitantly wander down the dark halls, sneaking under the sofa, hiding from the family cat who is ever lurking to catch them.
The book is uniquely illustrated by Brian Selznick and would not be as wondrous without the stunning creative art work.
When the young daughter of the real life people family receives a gift, the 100 year old doll family meet a brand new, modern, adventurous plastic bunch of characters who are not as rigid, up tight or breakable.
The author delightfully intertwines the personalities and the cultural differences of the older and modern doll family members.
I liked this book for many reasons, primarily for the imaginative wonderment of it all.
A porcelain family of dolls have inhabited an antique doll house for four generations. They come alive during the day when the house is empty and at night when the house is quiet.
There are funny adventures, both inside the doll house where the 100 year old family bangs away at a old fashioned wooden piano singing Aretha Franklin's Respect sockittome. sockitome, sockitome and outside the doll house where they hesitantly wander down the dark halls, sneaking under the sofa, hiding from the family cat who is ever lurking to catch them.
The book is uniquely illustrated by Brian Selznick and would not be as wondrous without the stunning creative art work.
When the young daughter of the real life people family receives a gift, the 100 year old doll family meet a brand new, modern, adventurous plastic bunch of characters who are not as rigid, up tight or breakable.
The author delightfully intertwines the personalities and the cultural differences of the older and modern doll family members.
I liked this book for many reasons, primarily for the imaginative wonderment of it all.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
April 9, 2009
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Finished Reading
February 27, 2012
– Shelved
February 27, 2012
– Shelved as:
young-adult
