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The Doll People (Doll People #1)
Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by Disney-Hyperion
(first published January 1st 2000)
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Aww, I wish my kids liked this more than they did. I mean they did like it, definitely, but they didn’t like like it, you know? And this review is going to have to reflect their reaction to it, not mine, because personally I think this book is cute. But evidently they have different tastes than I do, and who am I to judge? (Just for the record, though, those little jerks wouldn’t know a good book if it bit ’em in the ass.)
The Doll People is the story of a bunch of anthropomorphic dolls who’ve li...more
The Doll People is the story of a bunch of anthropomorphic dolls who’ve li...more
Annabelle Doll is a 100 year old dollhouse doll. She and her family (Mama, Papa, Bobby, Nanny, and Baby Betsy) have been passed down through three generations of girls. After so many years Annabelle feels a bit restless. Her craving for change is answered when a new family of dolls (The Funcrafts) move into the bedroom next door. Although the families are very different, Annabelle and Tiffany Funcraft hit it off instantly. With her new friend by her side Annabelle finally finds the courage to de...more
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We really liked this, but were sort of weirded out by it. Plus, an ongoing weird thing would happen where, toys that make music would go on mysteriously in the middle of the night. Throughout my daughter's childhood... it would happen now and then. This one ball with knob-like things sticking out that was really loud, and this one horse with a purple mane.. So, given that, we were perhaps a little bit sensitive. Anyway, great book, the sequel as well. A bit dark, but still..
It was a story about a Victorian china doll named Annabelle who sets out to find her long lost aunt, Auntie Sarah. One night while searching for Auntie Sarah, for the first time, she finds out that another family of dolls will soon be living in the house. She soon discovers it is a family of plastic dolls called the Funcrafts. Tiffany, the daughter of the Funcraft family, soon becomes great friends with Annabelle. They create SELMP (Society for Exploration and the Location of Missing Persons) to...more
If you are looking for a story that you can share with your chapter reader that doesn't include first loves, cliques or mean girls than this is the story for you. This was a sweet, delightful and clever story about adventure, friendship and mystery.
Annabelle is part of a doll set that is over one hundred years old. The set has been passed down from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter. Annabelle is curious about what happened to her Auntie Sarah who disappeared from the doll set over 50 yea...more
Annabelle is part of a doll set that is over one hundred years old. The set has been passed down from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter. Annabelle is curious about what happened to her Auntie Sarah who disappeared from the doll set over 50 yea...more
This book is one of my favorites from when I was younger. I love the mystery of trying to find Auntie Sarah and all of the adventures that Annabell goes on to find her aunt and get around the house. Annabell is a doll, who has been passed down in the same family for generations. Fifty years ago, Auntie Sarah disappeared and Annabell's doll family has never found out where she disappeared to. When another doll family moves in, Annabell befriends the daughter and they decide that Annabell needs to...more
The Doll People is about a young doll, Annabelle who is 8 years old, but has been around for about 100 years. She and her family and friends live in the doll house that belongs to Kate Palmer, however, Annabelle's aunt Sarah has been missing for years. This book is very fun for children to read because it tells the life of the dolls when humans aren't around. Annabelle and her family can talk and move around, but have to be careful to not be caught by humans or else they become frozen. However,...more
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Written by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin
Pictures by Brian Selznick
There is a house of dolls, but not just any kind of dolls they are alive. Humans don’t know this but when they are away they can talk, walk, read and do just about anything that you could think of. There is one doll who has a secret that no one else knows, and her name is Annabelle. She has 7 people in her family, one is a nanny. Her aunt and uncle live with her and her family.
Auntie Sarah has been missing for...more
Written by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin
Pictures by Brian Selznick
There is a house of dolls, but not just any kind of dolls they are alive. Humans don’t know this but when they are away they can talk, walk, read and do just about anything that you could think of. There is one doll who has a secret that no one else knows, and her name is Annabelle. She has 7 people in her family, one is a nanny. Her aunt and uncle live with her and her family.
Auntie Sarah has been missing for...more
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I give this book 5 stars because it is a-ma-zing. It tells me that dolls are people too, st the beginnig when Mr. Judd gave me this book, I thought it was for babies! But no way, it is amazing! It is a gorgeous story.
Summary:
At Kate's room lied a 100 year old doll house which loved a very curous little girl, Annabelle. She and her family were very scared of humans because they did not want to enter Permanent Doll State, which is when a doll shows herself to a human and then the doll dies...more
I give this book 5 stars because it is a-ma-zing. It tells me that dolls are people too, st the beginnig when Mr. Judd gave me this book, I thought it was for babies! But no way, it is amazing! It is a gorgeous story.
Summary:
At Kate's room lied a 100 year old doll house which loved a very curous little girl, Annabelle. She and her family were very scared of humans because they did not want to enter Permanent Doll State, which is when a doll shows herself to a human and then the doll dies...more
I remember reading this book while I was in middle school- it was one of my very favorites! Due to the fact that I loved my dolls and accessories, I thought this book looked very enjoyable, containing a sweet story. This story is very sweet and engaging with adventure, the importance of family, and new friendships being the focus of this book. I loved the simple (black and white) illustrations inside this Modern Fantasy chapter book, as it gives the perfect illustration of the image you would ex...more
If you are looking for something in depth and intellectual, this isn't the book for you, but if you are weary, tired and simply wanting something smooth, delightfully creative, imaginative and unique, then by all means, take a journey through doll land where magic occurs.
A porcelain family of dolls have inhabited an antique doll house for four generations. They come alive during the day when the house is empty and at night when the house is quiet.
There are funny adventures, both inside the doll...more
A porcelain family of dolls have inhabited an antique doll house for four generations. They come alive during the day when the house is empty and at night when the house is quiet.
There are funny adventures, both inside the doll...more
OMG BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...more
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Although this book is a favorite on my bookshelves, many of my eighth grade girls seems reluctant to pick it up (by fourteen, you apparently should be over dolls, in the eyes of my students) and enthralled within the first few pages. The story about is about an old porcelain doll family who is bombarded with the arrival of a new plastic doll family, who do not respect their "dated" ways of life and The Doll Code of Honor.
This brought to my mind memories of my mom forcing her old Chrissy doll (I...more
This brought to my mind memories of my mom forcing her old Chrissy doll (I...more
This fictional book is about a Victorian dollhouse with doll figures that comes to life when nobody sees them. The protagonist, Annabelle, an eight year old doll at heart although she is hundreds of years old is determined to find her long lost aunt after she found one of her aunt's journals. During the time, a new doll family was established, the Funcraft family. The difference between the two families are that the Funcraft family are made of plastic and have all these modern appliances and pop...more
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This was an incredibly sweet and charming book. Both my daughter and I loved it! The story follows little Annabelle Doll (who has been eight for one-hundred years) who yearns for a bit of adventure. Her Auntie Sarah has been missing for 45 years and none of the dolls have been brave enough to venture out to find her. But, when Annabelle finds her aunt's journal, she realizes that the Dolls really CAN leave the dollhouse and she is determi...more
This was an incredibly sweet and charming book. Both my daughter and I loved it! The story follows little Annabelle Doll (who has been eight for one-hundred years) who yearns for a bit of adventure. Her Auntie Sarah has been missing for 45 years and none of the dolls have been brave enough to venture out to find her. But, when Annabelle finds her aunt's journal, she realizes that the Dolls really CAN leave the dollhouse and she is determi...more
Grade/interest level: Upper Elementary (3rd-5th grade)
Reading level: Lexile 570 L
Genre: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Main Characters: Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft
Setting: Inside Kate’s bedroom in a one hundred year old dollhouse that has been passed on for generations
POV: third person omniscient narrator
Summary: The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brian Selznick, is a story of personified toys. Kate has a beautiful one hundred year old doll house in her bed...more
Reading level: Lexile 570 L
Genre: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Main Characters: Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft
Setting: Inside Kate’s bedroom in a one hundred year old dollhouse that has been passed on for generations
POV: third person omniscient narrator
Summary: The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brian Selznick, is a story of personified toys. Kate has a beautiful one hundred year old doll house in her bed...more
The Dolls and The Funcrafts, two doll families who remind readers that "dolls are people too."
In this delightful tale, readers follow Annabelle Doll and her friend, Tiffany Funcraft, as they set out to explore the human family's home in search of Auntie Sarah, Annabelle's aunt, who has been missing for forty-five years.
Can Annabelle and Tiffany discover what happened to Auntie Sarah without the humans discovering their secret life, or will the two be discovered by the humans and become permanent...more
In this delightful tale, readers follow Annabelle Doll and her friend, Tiffany Funcraft, as they set out to explore the human family's home in search of Auntie Sarah, Annabelle's aunt, who has been missing for forty-five years.
Can Annabelle and Tiffany discover what happened to Auntie Sarah without the humans discovering their secret life, or will the two be discovered by the humans and become permanent...more
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I just read the book Doll People by Ann M. Martin. Doll people is a very exciting and interesting story about a family of dolls that lives in a girls room named Kate. Their family was a family of eight but there are now only seven dolls because their auntie Sarah got lost.She got lost because the dolls would wander around the house sometimes which is a very dangerous thing to do considering the possibility of things that could happen. So auntie Sarah decided to go out one day and never came back...more
Authors: Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
First published: 2000
First book in the Doll People series.
I picked this book up for my daughter's birthday and have been hanging out to read it.
It just looked so beautiful.
And we enjoyed it.
Martin and Godwin spin a curious tale of dolls who are / aren't Real and their adventures to find Aunt Sarah. They play with the concept of exploration, bravery and problem solving, as well as simple childhood imagination, play and fun. The fri...more
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
First published: 2000
First book in the Doll People series.
I picked this book up for my daughter's birthday and have been hanging out to read it.
It just looked so beautiful.
And we enjoyed it.
Martin and Godwin spin a curious tale of dolls who are / aren't Real and their adventures to find Aunt Sarah. They play with the concept of exploration, bravery and problem solving, as well as simple childhood imagination, play and fun. The fri...more
Doll People by Ann M. Martin is a fun and creative book. Annabelle is bored. Sitting in her doll trying not to move or get caught, lying in the same position the whole day cooped up in the same house. All she wants to do is go on an adventure. Be a hero. Find something worth her doll life. And try not to get locked up in doll state while doing so. Auntie Sarah has been missing for 45 years but how could little Annabelle ever find her. Until one day she finds the fun crafts... this changes everyt...more
I read this way back when i was around 11, this was my favorite children s book i got my hands on it from my school library and fell head over heels in love with it. WHY? because its another version of toy story BUT with beautifully constructed dolls and a mix of the new dolls as well. I enjoyed how i could literally follow the setting and surroundings of the dolls and their hardships, and the beauty in the belief that you favorite toy is also your best friend that comes to life at night with pe...more
Jul 12, 2012
Newbury Town Library Youth Services
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read-alouds
Growing up, I had two handmade doll houses which I played with for hours on end. I think they are magical toys, and this book certainly works on that belief. The doll's in Kate's doll house are alive, but no human knows. They have been passed down for several generations within the family and are as beloved now as they were then. It's a perfect life for a doll house doll, except that Annabelle has the secret desire to go out and explore beyond the doll house, to find her lost Auntie Sarah Doll,...more
Age: 2nd-4th grade, but good for reading aloud
Annabelle is restless. She has always been stuck in her house with her family and she yearns to explore the outside place she constantly stares upon. But with The Captain cat guard and the fear of being immobile for 24 hours or for eternity. Her adventures would go against the Doll Code of Honor and put her whole family at risk. Annabelle's parents have successfully kept her in place, until Annabel finds her Auntie's diary who disappeared 55-years-ag...more
Annabelle is restless. She has always been stuck in her house with her family and she yearns to explore the outside place she constantly stares upon. But with The Captain cat guard and the fear of being immobile for 24 hours or for eternity. Her adventures would go against the Doll Code of Honor and put her whole family at risk. Annabelle's parents have successfully kept her in place, until Annabel finds her Auntie's diary who disappeared 55-years-ag...more
What a delightful find -- thanks to the Family Read-Alouds list at the Mountain View Library. I love our library!
This novel -- written by the author of the "Baby-Sitters Club" series, which I enjoyed as a preteen -- is about the imaginary world of dolls. The premise is that some dolls choose to be "living dolls." They can move, they can talk, etc. But with such privileges comes great responsibility. Namely, the dolls must uphold the "Doll Code of Honor," which entails protecting dollkind by hidi...more
This novel -- written by the author of the "Baby-Sitters Club" series, which I enjoyed as a preteen -- is about the imaginary world of dolls. The premise is that some dolls choose to be "living dolls." They can move, they can talk, etc. But with such privileges comes great responsibility. Namely, the dolls must uphold the "Doll Code of Honor," which entails protecting dollkind by hidi...more
SUMMARY: The Doll People by Ann M. Martin is about a family of dolls and the adventures they have when they come to life. Annabelle, the young doll girl, is obsessed with the fact that her Aunt Sarah has been missing for 45 years, and cannot figure out why her family never went looking for her. When she meets a new doll, Tiffany, they form a club that is built around finding Auntie Sarah.
CRITIQUE: The story is well-written in terms of genre, setting, characters, plot, theme, stance of the impli...more
CRITIQUE: The story is well-written in terms of genre, setting, characters, plot, theme, stance of the impli...more
Doll people is a fantastic book that explores the adventures of Annabelle the doll and her secret life. Annabelle keeps us in suspense as she dabbles in some dangerous business and threatens her own "permanent doll state."
I literally could not put this put down as I read it. I have always been a huge fan of Ann Martin, but this collaboratively written novel is an excellent new tale. It enlightened me to a new style of writing that I had never read from Ann Martin before (I read the whole babysi...more
I literally could not put this put down as I read it. I have always been a huge fan of Ann Martin, but this collaboratively written novel is an excellent new tale. It enlightened me to a new style of writing that I had never read from Ann Martin before (I read the whole babysi...more
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Great story and great drawings!
Do you believe dolls? Can you believe if your dolls are moving, reading,
talking,and searching?
In this book Annabelle is eight years old,
but she live for more than hundred years with her dad,mom,
bobby(her brother),uncle,and nanny.
Did you realize that someone is missing?
Yes, her auntie Sarah is missing.
No one knows where did she goes. They never saw her for 45 years.
No one tried to find her,
they only worried about her.
So nothing happened until
Fun crafts mo...more
Do you believe dolls? Can you believe if your dolls are moving, reading,
talking,and searching?
In this book Annabelle is eight years old,
but she live for more than hundred years with her dad,mom,
bobby(her brother),uncle,and nanny.
Did you realize that someone is missing?
Yes, her auntie Sarah is missing.
No one knows where did she goes. They never saw her for 45 years.
No one tried to find her,
they only worried about her.
So nothing happened until
Fun crafts mo...more
The Doll people by: Ann M. Martin
It’s all about a girl named Annabelle Doll. She is 100 years old and lives in an old doll house. this Doll house has been passed through generations, with Annabelle and her family. Annabelle lives with her brother Bobby, Mama Doll, Papa doll, Uncle Doll, Nanny, and Baby Betsy. After so many years Annabelle feels a bit restless. But then one day she finds a diary, not one of the fake books in her shelve, but a real diary. It was not any kind of diary either, but...more
It’s all about a girl named Annabelle Doll. She is 100 years old and lives in an old doll house. this Doll house has been passed through generations, with Annabelle and her family. Annabelle lives with her brother Bobby, Mama Doll, Papa doll, Uncle Doll, Nanny, and Baby Betsy. After so many years Annabelle feels a bit restless. But then one day she finds a diary, not one of the fake books in her shelve, but a real diary. It was not any kind of diary either, but...more
The Doll People
Have you ever thought that other than just living things there was a whole different world? Like where other things, had their own life, Where they talked, where they lived just like us, they had their own house.
Well it’s all true! Yes in this book the Doll People there is a little doll girl Annabelle. She lives with her family in a little doll house. Papa, mama, grandma, a baby sister, and a brother. And there in that house they live just like any other normal people.
this books...more
Have you ever thought that other than just living things there was a whole different world? Like where other things, had their own life, Where they talked, where they lived just like us, they had their own house.
Well it’s all true! Yes in this book the Doll People there is a little doll girl Annabelle. She lives with her family in a little doll house. Papa, mama, grandma, a baby sister, and a brother. And there in that house they live just like any other normal people.
this books...more
Sep 20, 2010
Al
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
2-5th graders
Shelves:
with-veronica
This story is built around a cute premise -- a Victorian doll family, the Dolls, that's been passed down through four generations for the past 100+ years suddenly has neighbors -- a new plastic doll family, the Funcrafts, with "snap-on plastic clothes" and a dream house. Themes of acceptance and friendship are explored while the two families get to know each other and learn about each others customs and day-to-day life. Some danger and mystery are thrown into the story, centering around the huma...more
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Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood me...more
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