The Store-Bought Doll (Little Golden Book)

By Lois Meyer

Book Overview

* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science - so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a latter-day Marco Polo. *A specialist in brain damage, he is famous for an instinctive, intuitive approach to neurological disorders that has led him to successfully 'amputate' phantom limbs, as well as solving the riddles of apotemnophilia (an obsession with self-amputation), and Capgrass syndrome (where patients who are in all other respects fully recovered become convinced that their loved ones are imposters). This new book will explore why the human brain is so unique and how it became so enchantingly complex. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about the brain and how it evolved. Along the way we hear stories that are by turns moving, funny, tragic and disturbing, but always utterly fascinating.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307601935
• ISBN13: 9780307601933
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Goldencraft
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Simple Story Praising Simplicity

This Little Golden Book made a big impression on me as a child, and I read it many times. It gently and quietly points out the beauties of a simple life with few, homemade things. While the titular store-bought doll finds her place in the end, the message is clear that there are actually disadvantages to the fancy, fragile, manufactured goods of the world. That is a rare message that we need more than ever, and this book delivers the thought-provoking idea in a tender, gentle way that is not unbearably didactic. I am eager to read it with my own little girls and see the impression it makes on them.

Great book for little girls!

I loved this book when I was little, and my daughter loves it now. The pictures are wonderful and the story is sweet.