Customer Reviews

Trouble Dolls

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

TROUBLE DOLLS by JIMMY BUFFETT and SAVANNAH JANE BUFFETT is a really great story! It has many elements within it that are similar to the life of JIMMY BUFFETT, which PARROTHEADS will be sure to notice. The imagination runs wild in reading TROUBLE DOLLS! Mental pictures of the Florida Keys and longing for them are results of reading this book. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, too! I highly recommend this book to people of all ages - PARROTHEADS . . . lovers of the tropics . . . children . . . adults that need a getaway for just a few minutes. The book is great! Find out for yourself!

I read this book and JOLLY MON to my fourth and fifth grade students. They LOVED it and wanted to know if he had written any more books. The story is sweet and my students were impressed with Lizzie's courage and sailing ability.

I haven't read this myself but I've read all of Jimmy's novels and his autobiography. I figured his children's books would inspire the same imagination for kids that his other books have done for me.

The twins' mom tells me that the girls love it.

This is a great book for kids. Lizzie being able to handle her own problems makes it very empowering to children...especially girls!

This is another book that is written for children but is entertaining for children. My grandchildren enjoyed it.

What a mess! This story has identity problems all over the place. It is produced in picture-book format but is too advanced and too long for a picture book, but too short and not developed enough for a chapter book. It is written in realistic style, but dolls are alive and birds speak and everyone can hear them; the housekeeper just picks up the girl's pillow and there's village of dolls. The housekeeper also lets the 9-year-old girl go out in her skiff to search for her missing father even though there is a big storm coming, "because the trouble dolls would guide her well and keep her safe." Why didn't the dad take them, then?? Magic isn't taken far enough to make an alternate world, and the dolls and talking animals are simply incongruous in ours. I enjoyed that the Guatemalan trouble dolls slipped in and out of Lizzy's map, but in general this was a mish-mash story.