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 s...
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Sep 21, 2009
Kelly Jo
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What child has never wondered about what their toys do when they are not home? This book very cleverly brings us into the world of dolls in a most believable fashion. Not only does it open the imagination, it gives readers a taste for adventure, curiosity, and dealing with the unknown and the different.
An antique doll house in a little girl's room is the setting that introduces us to a very traditional family of dolls, with traditional (ahem) family values. Soon we find a second dol More...
An antique doll house in a little girl's room is the setting that introduces us to a very traditional family of dolls, with traditional (ahem) family values. Soon we find a second dol More...
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Dec 15, 2011
Chandra
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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
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Mar 30, 2009
Claire
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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..
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Dec 25, 2010
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OMG BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dec 14, 2009
Katie
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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.
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Aug 29, 2009
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
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Jul 23, 2011
Crys
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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.
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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.
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Sep 23, 2010
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
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Dec 12, 2010
Kelsey
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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 5 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 5 More...
Oct 21, 2009
(NS) Becca
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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 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 More...
Mar 02, 2011
Zainab
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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 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 More...
Sep 20, 2010
Al
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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 aroun
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Oct 15, 2010
Meghan
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I just finished the book "The Doll People". The setting is in a doll house, that Annabelle lives in. The main characters are Annabelle, who is a china doll, Tiffany, who is a new plastic doll, and Auntie Sara, who is Annabelles aunt. At the begining of the story Auntie Sara dissapeared. No one but Annabelle was brave enough to look for her, but she didnt want to go alone. So when Annabelles owner bought Tiffany, they began searching for Auntie Sara every night. Eventually they found he
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Dec 29, 2007
Brianna
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Never gets boring! Way awesome book by Naylor. Now, you can creep into the dolls life without it being too babyish or boring. Then one doll finds an old doll diary belonging to a doll lost long ago, and so many adventures spark up from there.
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Oct 21, 2009
(NS) Amie
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I enjoyed listening to this low fantasy story about personified toys. Annabelle Doll and her family of china dolls have lived a happy, yet somewhat boring, life for over one hundred years in their doll house. Annabelle, the most curious of the all wants to find out what happened to her Aunt Sarah, who vanished almost fifty years ago, and is determined to find her even if it means leaving their home and risking the chance of being seen out of place by the humans who own them. Adding to the exci
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Sep 13, 2011
Jael
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I've always been hugely fascinated by stories about dolls and dolls' houses, and I was definitely curious to see how a modern-day author would handle this kind of story, especially since it deals (partly) with antique dolls.
I didn't find it great (The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden still holds first place for me there), but it was good; fresh and entertaining in its mixing of old dolls and old dollhouse with a modern, plastic doll family and house; very funny in regards to the little pes More...
I didn't find it great (The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden still holds first place for me there), but it was good; fresh and entertaining in its mixing of old dolls and old dollhouse with a modern, plastic doll family and house; very funny in regards to the little pes More...
Dec 02, 2008
Helen
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Annabelle lives in the doll house with Mama Doll, Papa Doll, Bobby Doll, Uncle Doll, Nanny, and Baby Betsy. Unknown to their owners the Palmer family, the Doll family comes to life and moves about their doll house at night and whenever the Palmers are not at home. Their biggest problem is that the Palmers' cat, Captain, is frequently watching and often peers in the windows of the dollhouse. Annabelle's Auntie Sarah has been missing for 45 years and one night, Annabelle finds a journal that Au
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Nov 25, 2011
Deana
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This is a story featuring two families, which are a real-life family and a pretend family that is modeled with doll figures. The dolls run and play around the dollhouse and the room when the real family leaves their house. Then, the dolls will return to where they were left by the real family before they left. The dolls act like real people and have lived in that dollhouse for a long time. Their world turns upside down when a new family, The Funcrafts, moves in and does not follow the rules. The
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Oct 07, 2010
Mackaylard96
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I loved it was one of my favorite books.\The doll people
this story is about a girl and her and her family as dolls and there is this doll code that you can not speak in front of the humans or else they will take away your power to move and talk. And it is about this girl named Annabelle who is trying to fined her missing aunt and this book is about here and here adventures to try and fined her aunt and wall she was trying to fined her she found friend and there family called the fun craf More...
this story is about a girl and her and her family as dolls and there is this doll code that you can not speak in front of the humans or else they will take away your power to move and talk. And it is about this girl named Annabelle who is trying to fined her missing aunt and this book is about here and here adventures to try and fined her aunt and wall she was trying to fined her she found friend and there family called the fun craf More...
Jul 06, 2009
Christina
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I can vividly recall reading The Doll People; I was still at that age where my dolls and dollhouse were the center of my life, and I remember peeking over the top of my book to catch my dolls mid-movement. No such luck.
But Martin and Godwin’s fantastic tale of Annabelle Doll, a doll who looks eight-years-old but has lived a long life, and her search for her Aunt Sarah, an exploring doll that has disappeared from the doll house seventy-five years ago, is a great read for any little gi More...
But Martin and Godwin’s fantastic tale of Annabelle Doll, a doll who looks eight-years-old but has lived a long life, and her search for her Aunt Sarah, an exploring doll that has disappeared from the doll house seventy-five years ago, is a great read for any little gi More...
Jun 25, 2010
Ingrid
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I think that all kids wonder what their toys do while they aren't around and imagine that they have a secret life. The dolls living in Kate's dollhouse are not ordinary dolls and when Kate and her family aren't around they move about their dollhouse. Kate's dollhouse is quite old and has been handed down through the family. Annabelle is very bored after living in her dollhouse with the same people for so many years, but then Kate's sister, Nora gets a dollhouse. The Funcrafts from the new dollho
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Oct 24, 2010
Kathryn
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I loved this book so much that I wanted to read it again before I read the next book in the sequel. This book is about a doll named Annabelle that has lived a normal doll's life for 100 years, but all that changes on her present owners (Kate) sisters birthday. Kate's sister, Nora, gets new "dollies" ( that's what Nora calls the dolls) for her birthday and they are, The Funcrafts, Tiffany, Bailey, Mom Funcraft, Dad Funcraft, and Baby Brittany. Annabelle and Tiffany become fast friends,
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Nov 22, 2010
Cara
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Annabelle Doll and her Doll family have been loved and played with by one family for generations. After the family falls asleep for the night (or have left the house for the day), she and her family come alive. They roam about their doll house. One day, the youngest daughter of the family gets a new doll family of her own, the Funcrafts. Together the daughter dolls explore the house in search of the Dolls' missing Auntie Sarah. Where is she? Is she even still in the house? Is she frozen i
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Jul 06, 2011
Josie
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Annabelle is a 100 year old doll with a Mama, Papa, brtother named Bobby, sister named Baby Britney, uncle named Uncle Doll and nanny. She has lived with the Palmers for a centry, and her owner is Kate. She used to have an aunt named Auntie Sarah, but her aunt dissapeared years ago. Annabelle is a living doll, but if she is seen by a human she will go into Doll State in which she cannot move for 24 hours. If she risks revealing the fact that dolls are alive, she may go into the Permanent Doll St
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Jul 17, 2011
Hillari
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I read this aloud to my three children, ages 7, 5, and 3. We all really enjoyed it. It was a fun story with a good mystery thrown in. I highly recommend it as a read-aloud, or for a young reader. Although I have to admit--it was exremely tempting to sneak ahead and find out what really happened to Auntie Sarah, so you don't necessarily have to be young to enjoy this one.
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I also have to add that my children saw on goodreads that there are two sequels out to this book, and they are begging me More...
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Aug 19, 2009
Kim
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The Doll family is over one hundred years old and has been passed down from Grandma Katherine, her daughter Annie, and her granddaughter Kate (their human family). They are made of China and are very breakable. They live in a beautiful dollhouse. One day Kate's sister, Nora, gets her own dollhouse - modern and plastic. Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft become good friends. Together they decide to try to find Annabelle's missing aunt; but they have to be careful because The Captain, the hu
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Jul 25, 2010
bookczuk
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I was interested to see how the authors carried out the whole secret life of dolls bit, particularly in light of the wholeToy Story series. I also wanted to see how the artist interpreted it, so gave this book a quick read. I am sure there are kids who it will appeal to. After all, I'm fairly sure my old stuffed animals and toys probably had (and have) very rich and fulfilling lives out of my view.
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May 04, 2009
Natalie
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Annabelle is eight years old, that is, she has been for over one hundred years. She and her family have been passed down from great grandma to grandma to mother and to daughter. She hasn't had much adventure in her life because she was usually cooped up in a dollhouse her whole life. She lives with her Father, mother, nanny, great uncle, little brother and baby sister. One of her owners had lost her great aunt and they hadn't seen her for years. Her baby sister was mixed up when her great grandm
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Dec 29, 2011
Emily
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Lynn Redgrave's wry delivery makes this a fabulous listen--I laughed out loud in the car several times--and Ann Martin's text about an old family of dolls passed down through generations meeting, trying to understand, and befriending a new, plastic family of dolls called The Funcrafts (when their owner's 4-yr-old sister gets her own dollhouse) is classic. Very fun listen for adults, kids, or whole families, etc., especially if you have a tendency to like books like The Borrowers and The Indian i
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Sep 22, 2011
Katie
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We read this in our Mom-Daughter book club and I think I enjoyed it as much as the girls did. I was dreading it, but I was hooked by the story very quickly. It is about a family of 100 year old dolls who are alive and live a sheltered life in their doll house. This changes when the daughter decides to go searching after her aunt who has been missing from the house for 47 years. The dolls also have to leave their comfort zone when a new family of plastic dolls moves into the room next door. T
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