The Very Best Doll

By Julia Noonan

Book Overview

For doll lovers of all ages, here is a picture-perfect ode to everyone's very best doll. She's the always-been-there, cuddle-and-hold, much-loved, soft-cloth kind of doll. The new, birthday-surprise doll, with her blue silk dress and fancy, stylable hair, is pristine and breathtaking. But when it's time to go to bed, she just isn't the same as the favorite old doll for snuggling up close. With the meltingly soft, painterly illustrations that she used in her best-selling books Over the Rainbow, by E. Y. Harburg, and Dream Land, by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julia Noonan tells every girl's story of the old, familiar, and enduring doll who can never be replaced by even the most elegant and beautiful new one.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525470751
• ISBN13: 9780525470755
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book

I initially picked up this book from the library because it's on display and because I thought it would be a great read for my daughter since she also has two dolls: a small one we bought for her first birthday, and the other more luxurious one when she was around two and half year old. She's so in love with this book that I had to buy a copy for our own. It is such an enchanted story, but real at the same time.

My daughter loves it!

I have a five-year old daughter who loves dolls and loves to read. She loves this book! This is a heart warming story for little girls of this age.

Delightful book for children

Lovely way to present the idea that new isn't necessarily better!

IF YOU'VE EVER REALLY LOVED A DOLL

Did you love a doll until it was worn to a fragrant frazzle? Did you play with dolls at a time when it was still cool to do so? Do you want to enjoy that feeling all over again, or share it with a young doll lover? You'll understand this book, and love it!