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The Fairy Doll

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The youngest of four children, Elizabeth is picked on by her siblings and feels stupid and clumsy, until Great-Grandmother assigns her a protector in the Fairy Doll at the top of the Christmas tree. Sometimes help comes from without in the form of a talisman, and sometimes it comes from within, that inner "ting!" of intuition that tells us what to do. This story would be good both for the scapegoated child in a family, and for other kids who are mean without realizing how damaging it is to another's self-confidence.

This story is also included in the Rumer Godden collection "Four Dolls."

My favorite children's book for forty years- out of print for a long time. Fairy Doll is a beautiful story about self-confidence and the "magic" of fairies. Buy this book!

I searched high and low for this book for several years, and am thrilled to find it back in print. It's a touching story of a little girl finding her inner strength and confidence with the help of a very special little doll. This is one of the first books I read as a young child, and now I will have the pleasure of sharing it with my little granddaughter.