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Three of the dolls live with many different children but do not find true happiness until they meet that one special child. One such doll, named Impunity Jane, longs for adventure and sport but finds neither until she makes her way into the pocket of a small boy named Gideon. Together they swing in the park, climb trees, and pretend to sail the high seas! This little frozen Charlotte doll never wished to live inside the secure, dull walls of a nursery. She hated being dressed up in fine clothing and displayed on top of pin cushions; the adventurous life was what Impunity Jane wished for and only a doll's truest friends can hear their wishes.
In a story called, Candy Floss, a fortunate little doll lives many happy years on the road with a carney named Jack until she is kidnapped by a very spoiled, selfish girl named Clementina. Candy Floss suffers a great deal of abuse at the hands of this child kidnapper before Clementina learns that dolls, like children, need to be nurtured and have their feelings taken seriously.
The Fairy Doll is full of Christmas magic. She lives from one generation to the next in order to teach each child in her family how to believe in themselves. Sometimes she must even leave the branches of the Christmas tree in order to aid those family members who need her the most.
However, Ivy who is the Christmas doll in the, The Story of Holly and Ivy, must patiently wish day and night for her poor little mistress to be adopted by a new family, before she can be united with her girl on Christmas Eve.
For each tale of every doll who first lived inside the mind of Rumer Godden, there are valuable lessons to be lived and learned by young readers.
About The Author: Margaret Rumer Godden was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. She grew up with her three sisters in Narayanganj, colonial India (now in Bangladesh), where her father, a shipping company executive, worked for the Brahmaputra Steam Navigation Company.Her parents sent the girls to England for schooling, as was the custom of the time, but brought them back to Narayanganj when the First World War began. She returned to the United Kingdom with her sisters to continue her interrupted schooling in 1920, spending time at Moira House Girls School in Eastbourne and eventually training as a dance teacher. She went back to Calcutta in 1925 and opened a dance school for English and Indian children. Rumer ran the school for 20 years with the help of her sister Nancy. During this time she published her first best-seller, the 1939 novel for adult readers, Black Narcissus.
A number of Godden's novels are set in India, the atmosphere of which she evokes through all the senses; her writing is vivid with detail of smells, textures, light, flowers, noises and tactile experiences. Her books for children, especially her doll stories, strongly convey the secret thoughts, confusions, disappointments and aspirations of childhood. Her plots often involve unusual young people not recognized for their talents by ordinary lower or middle-class people but supported by the educated, rich, and upper-class, to the anger, resentment, and puzzlement of their relatives. Wikipedia
Interesting Facts About The Author:
- Rumer Godden married three times and divorced twice.
- Her last marriage was to civil servant James Haynes Dixon in 1949
- She had two daughters, Jane and Paula.
- Someone attempted to poison both the author and her children before she moved back to Calutta in 1944.
- Margaret R. Godden lived in three countries during her lifetime: England, India and America.
- During the 1950s she became a Catholic.
- She won a 1972 Whitbread award for The Diddakoi, a young adult novel about Gypsies, televised by the BBC as Kizzy.
- She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
- Margaret Rumer Godden died on November, 8, 1998 at the age of 90, after a series of strokes.
- She wrote more than 60 books in her lifetime, 28 of those were for children.
- The author had a pet dog named Piers.
- Rumer Godden's books have been translated into many languages.
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