Candy Floss [Import] [Hardcover]

Rumer Godden (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: The Viking Press; First edition. edition (1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333093801
• ISBN-13: 978-0333093801
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,183,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Listen to a doll, and she can help you listen to your own heart, January 13, 2006

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Ellen Etc. (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Candy Floss (Hardcover)

Candy Floss has a very happy life with the carnival, helping the little dog Cocoa and a painted horse Nuts bring business into the "coconut shy" stall of their beloved Jack. This is an unusual story because Jack is a grown-up young man who cares for Nuts and Candy Floss just as much as he does for his real live dog, considering them all his "partners" and Candy Floss his "luck." It shows that some people can hear doll wishes, no matter how old they get on the outside.

Then the family gets mixed up with a spoiled, unhappy little girl named Clementina Davenport. She wants to buy Candy Floss and naturally Jack will not sell her, but Clementina is not used to being refused, and she causes everyone a lot of trouble, as spoiled, unhappy people so often do.

This was such a great story! It makes you want to run off and be a carnival doll, or a carnival stall operator. Jack has much more sense than Clementina's indulgent parents, and really she is much happier after she meets him and Candy Floss anyway.

This is the final story in the Rumer Godden collection "Four Dolls," and it is my next favorite after "Impunity Jane."

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book..., October 6, 2004

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georgia thomas - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candy Floss (Hardcover)

One of my fave. books as a little girl. So cute

5.0 out of 5 stars a tough little ballerina, February 16, 2004

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portledgesteven "portledgesteven" (Carbondale, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candy Floss (Hardcover)

I found this book in a box when my parents moved out of their house of 50 years. I thought it had long since been given away. My copy is the old one, with illustrations by Adams and the new version, with illustrations by Hogrogian has a different, but still charming, feel.
Candy Floss is a little china ballerina who belongs to Jack, and is his good luck charm. A wicked little girl named Clementina (think Nelly on "Little House on the Prairie", but make her even worse) steals Candy Floss away. As with so many books, after some trevails and damage, the friends (which include Nuts and Cocoa who are a horse Candy Floss dances on, and a dog), are all reunited, Candy Floss is restored to her glory by Jack and good luck returns.
It's a wonderful story made even better by a nasty villainess.