Take Me Home

by Dare Wright

Robin is a little doll who lives in the woods. She is found by a girl named Susan and finds a new home with her. After a time, however, Robin and a teddy bear named Sam leave Susan's home and return to the woods which is the doll's real home.

50 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Most dolls belong to little girls, and live in houses. Robin was different. Robin was a little doll who lived in the woods. She didn’t belong to anyone, but she had more friends than she could count.” One day a little girl named Susan discovers a doll lying among the leaves. “It was Robin taking an afternoon nap, but Susan thought it was a poor little doll whom nobody wanted.” So Susan picks Robin up and brings her home. There, Rovin makes friends with Susan’s other toys, but her kindred spirit (aka lover?!!) is a teddy bear named Sam. “‘How will you get out of the house? You’re very small,’ said Sam. ‘I’m big enough,’ said Robin. ‘I’ll find a way.’ And she went off to sleep with her head against Sam’s soft side.” Not everyone is accepting as Sam; however. When Robin expresses her determination to return to her undomesticated dollhood in the woods, the head doll tsks, “Imagine leaving a good home with a nice child to live in some dreadful woods. So uncivilized…That’s not the way to spell hospitality.’ ‘It’s the way I spell it,’ said Robin.” While the photographs can be construed as static, and the cover photograph shows a naked doll tactfully covered in fig-leaf modicum of modesty, Take Me Home is a photographic parable of feminism and the freedom to embrace “your wild and precious life.”