The Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, see their peaceful existence threatened when the house's owner announces he is coming from Australia for a visit.
Although her family's prosperity brings her increasingly nicer dolls as Christmas gifts, Rebecca is most fond of her gingerbread doll because it was made from love.
Life on the Utah frontier in the 1800s tested the families that settled there in different ways. In this story Mary Ann is heartbroken when her doll Betty is lost during a fierce storm. Her sadness lasts all winter long, until spring brings a wonderful surprise.
Examines a variety of dolls throughout the world, discussing how they have been used at different times and how they reflect the cultures that created them.
Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.
Heloise lives with her undemonstrative godmother in the caretaker's cottage next to a sinister-looking museum that she is not allowed to enter, but her life changes when she discovers a longtime-desired doll beneath the floorboards of her bedroom.
