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The Most Wonderful Doll in the World
This Caldecott Honor Book of 1951 is now available again! The classic tale about imaginative Dulcy and her beloved doll Angela, who Dulcy loses soon after she get her. When Dulcy finds Angela, she's not at all like the doll Dulcy remembers, but that won't stop Dulcy from hoping to find the doll of her dreams. Full-color illustrations.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
November 1st 1992
by Scholastic
(first published 1950)
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This book was a favorite of mine when I was around 5 or 6 years old, and I probably read it at least a hundred times.
I would recommend this book to any young girl between 4 and 8 because it is about a life they understand. Although this book was written a long time ago and times have changed drastically since then, most girls still love dolls, blankets, stuffed animals, or all three. This means that almost every little girl can understand how Dulcy feels about her doll and how she is always wish...more
I would recommend this book to any young girl between 4 and 8 because it is about a life they understand. Although this book was written a long time ago and times have changed drastically since then, most girls still love dolls, blankets, stuffed animals, or all three. This means that almost every little girl can understand how Dulcy feels about her doll and how she is always wish...more
This charming, nostalgic story of a little girl who is not satisfied with all she has is, unfortunately, out of print. Dulcy is a the daughter of a family with wealth and she owns many beautiful dolls. She receives the doll Angela from her neighbor, Mrs. Primrose, and has the bad luck of loosing it. As she describes the doll to family and friends, it becomes more and more fantastic. She becomes unhappy with all her other dolls and her friends don't want to play with her anymore. Dulcy is very lo...more
This is the story of a little girl, Dulcy, who loves her dolls more than anything in the world. However, someone else's doll has a prettier dress or curlier hair than her dolls. She is never truly satisfied with what she has. One day her neighbor, Mrs. Primrose, gives her a doll named Angela. Unfortunately on the way home, Angela is misplaced. As Dulcy tells each new person about Angela, Angela becomes prettier and has more beautiful clothes. The story grows and grows until a year later, Angela...more
This book starts out "There once was a girl named Dulcy who had lots of imagination. "Too much imagination," her mother would say to her father. Dulcy was a little girl who wanted to things she couldn't have. Things like dolls for example, Dulcy had way to many of them but she loved Angela the most and flaunted about how she was the best doll. Then she finds that all the things she flaunted about Angela were all in her imaginaton.
Girls tend to use their imaginations as often as possible, they p...more
Girls tend to use their imaginations as often as possible, they p...more
Dulcy has a collection of dolls though she's not quite satisfied with any of them. One day a neighbor woman gifts her a doll named Angela that Dulcy misplaces in her excitement over a freshly raked pile of leaves. For months afterward whenever she recalls Angela the doll's features become more and more exaggerated until almost everyone in her life tires from hearing about the doll. In the spring, Dulcy finds Angela in the yard under a pile of leaves, but she looks nothing like the wondrous doll...more
Dulcy's doll Angela is lost, and this is terrible, because she was the most wonderful doll in the world. Dulcy tells anyone and everyone about her terrible loss, until there is no one left who wants to hear about how great Angela was or how many accessories she had. When the real Angela turns up, Dulcy learns a little bit about Things As They Are.
Delightfully vintage in voice, but still classic in appeal, this 1951 Caldecott Honor winner is many things - honest, amusing, dazzling, and more. Dulc...more
Delightfully vintage in voice, but still classic in appeal, this 1951 Caldecott Honor winner is many things - honest, amusing, dazzling, and more. Dulc...more
Can you say spoiled? Dulcy sure can. Having parents and family, who give into her demands, she gets all the dolls she wants. Her neighbor one day gives Dulcy a doll named Angela. At first glance, Angela is quickly dismissed and lost by Dulcy. However, when Dulcy tells people about losing Angela she adds on to Angela's descriptions. The story of Angela gets bigger and much more embelished as she goes from person to person. Then, her family stops giving her dolls since no doll could eever compare...more
I put off reading this as long as I could - the subject of a doll made it feel like a little-girl book from 1950 - exactly what it was and little more. Helen Stone's illustrations, especially the color two-page spreads are what rescue the book. The story of Dulcy's ongoing disappointment with everything she has, especially her dolls, is a bit hard to bear - her imagination and several influential adults keep her from going under. 2.4 stars just because of the illustrations.
Dulcy's doll Angela is lost, and this is terrible, because she was the most wonderful doll in the world. Dulcy tells anyone and everyone about her terrible loss, until there is no one left who wants to hear about how great Angela was or how many accessories she had. When the real Angela turns up, Dulcy learns a little bit about Things As They Are.
Delightfully vintage in voice, but still classic in appeal, this 1951 Caldecott Honor winner is many things - honest, amusing, dazzling, and more. Dulc...more
Delightfully vintage in voice, but still classic in appeal, this 1951 Caldecott Honor winner is many things - honest, amusing, dazzling, and more. Dulc...more
I'm not sure what to say about this book. It was very interesting. I think Elizabeth is too young for it, though. It is about a girl who makes us a story and tells it so many times she begins to believe it, too.
Caldecott Honor, 1951
It looks like an early chapter book.
Favorite illustration: page 34
Favorite line: "There was once a little girl named Dulcy who found it hard to be satisfied with things as they are."
It looks like an early chapter book.
Favorite illustration: page 34
Favorite line: "There was once a little girl named Dulcy who found it hard to be satisfied with things as they are."
I loved this book as a child. I had always loved dolls and this book reinforced my love of dolls. I remember I got this book for free from my second grade teacher. I wish I still had it.
This book is a great story to teach children to appreciate what you have. The illustrations are beautiful and it definitely deserved the Caldecott Honor it received.
One of my favorite books as a little kid. I read it so many times, and I loved it more each time I read it! I practically had it memorized.
This book is about a girl name Dulcy who
loved her Doll her doll's name was Angela.and one day she gave lost.
loved her Doll her doll's name was Angela.and one day she gave lost.
charming art.
the storyin the last few pages turns preachy, but maybe it wouldn't read that way to a kid?
the storyin the last few pages turns preachy, but maybe it wouldn't read that way to a kid?
One of my favorite books when I was little, even though for some reason I cried at the end every time.
This story provides an excellent distinction between being disappointed by wanting something you can't have and nurturing an unrealistic dream simply because it is fun to dream.
Power of belief and imagination coupled with what is true and real.
Caldecott honor
Caldecott honor
the illustrations are wonderful!
it is so good thanks to the author
As far as the story of this book, I HATED IT. I found the little girl an annoying spoiled brat, and the story was painful to read. It was very repetitive, and the it was like listening to a long, boring joke in a bar. I did love the illustrations, and this is the perfect example of a book that deserved the Caldecott for its illustrations, but makes it hard to read it for #nerdcott. I fought my way through the story, and I am giving it 4 stars for illustration, and 1 star for story.
Dulcy is not satisfied with what she has - she imagines that everything would be perfect if it were different. Her doll with yellow hair she wishes had brown hair. She wishes another doll had a lace slip. When her neighbor Mrs. Primrose gives her another doll, Angela, Dulcy promptly loses it. While it remains lost she builds it up in her mind as something far more wonderful than it really is; when she finds it again will she be satisfied with "things as they are?"
1951 Caldecott Honor
Favorite illustration: Where Dulcy is on the floor recounting the names of all her dolls.
Kid-appeal: I found the girl in this book super annoying and I'm not sure kids would get past that easily. I know her whiny and exaggerating ways are purposeful to teach readers a lesson, but I found it over the top. The illustrations were nice, however.
Favorite illustration: Where Dulcy is on the floor recounting the names of all her dolls.
Kid-appeal: I found the girl in this book super annoying and I'm not sure kids would get past that easily. I know her whiny and exaggerating ways are purposeful to teach readers a lesson, but I found it over the top. The illustrations were nice, however.
This really has the feel of an early chapter book.
There was a part at the end that felt a bit didactic as far as the lesson the main character has learned, but other than that I appreciated the main character's exaggeration, and the sweet illustrations.
There was a part at the end that felt a bit didactic as far as the lesson the main character has learned, but other than that I appreciated the main character's exaggeration, and the sweet illustrations.
Read for #nerdcott. Reviewed in Caldecott Challenge Post #73: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
This book is a really cute story about a little girl and her doll.
This was my favorite book when I was little. :) ♥
Great reminder to appreciate what we have
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McGinley was educated at the University of Southern California and at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. After receiving her diploma in 1927, she taught for a year in Ogden and then at a junior high school in New Rochelle, New York. Once she had begun to establish a reputation for herself as a writer, McGinley gave up teaching and moved to New York City, where she held various jobs. She mar...more
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