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The Most Wonderful Doll in the World (Blue Ribbon Book)

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Dulcy loved dolls, but she was always dissatisfied with something, and no doll had "it" all, that is, no doll before Angela. Angela was a blond haired doll given to her with a box full of clothes. When Dulcy lost her due to carelessness, her mother asked what Angela was like so they could find a replacement, Dulcy said "Oh no There'll never be another Angela. She was the most wonderful doll in the world...she had real yellow hair and eyes that opened and closed and she said Mama and Papa and sang Rock-a-bye Baby, and she could wave her hand and take steps. She had patent leather shoes with heels and a purse with a handkerchief in it..." and more. Dulcy loved to tell anyone who would listen about her lost doll. The memory of the doll became more wonderful and exaggerated each time she talked about her. Dulcy stopped playing with her other dolls as well, for none of them could measure up to Angela. But...What happens when Dulcy finds Angela in a pile of leaves and finds Angela wasn't what she had remembered? "She didn't even have patent leather shoes with heels or a purse with a handkerchief...

This is a cute story of a girl who held on to a childhood dream only to find it was all imagined, and how she grew up and learned to be satisfied with things the way they where because of it.

This is a wondeful book for little girls 6-10. The reading level is probably 3rd grade or so, but it is a great story any Mom would enjoy reading outloud. There is a nostalgia there that makes me swear I read it when I was 8. The pictures are beautiful and the story is worth reading many times. My girls love it and my son also listens to it when I read it.

A little girl named Dulcy finds that a doll named Angela she received as a gift and immediately lost takes on better and better attributes the longer she is missing. Over the winter, Dulcy becomes insufferable with family and friends about how much better Angela was than any other doll, either gifts she receives or other girls' toys, and Angela's abilities and outfits continually one-up the other children's dolls. When Angela is finally found, Dulcy is chagrined to realize that the doll she imagined and the doll she lost are quite different. For such a self-aggrandizing person, Dulcy realized the moral of her experience awfully fast. Also, the repitition of Angela's qualities and outfits, with a new one added each time Dulcy imagines it, would be more suitable for a picture book for much younger readers.