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Floating Island (novel)

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as "... one of those books so whimsically compounded that its like happens rarely." and went on "There are many people who can write a fine story of adventure, history or everyday life, but how many can write an Alice or a Story of Dr. Dolittle? It is this last kind of book which Anne Parrish
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One day, Henry purchases the dollhouse and the dolls for his niece, Elizabeth, and the dolls are wrapped, put inside a box, and sent to the tropics, where Elizabeth lives. En route, the dolls wreck on a ship, and they drift to an uninhabited tropical island with their
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A housemaid of Doll family. Her china is black and lips seem full. At the end, unlike the other dolls she chooses to stay on Floating Island because she feels "as if this was home".
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At the end of the story, Mrs. Doll proposes leaving Floating Island, because "dolls need children, and children need dolls". They raise a signal fire, which is spotted by a sailor.
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The story concludes by asking readers whether or not they have the doll and "If you think they are, will you tell me?"
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reading books and dancing "The Waltz of the Dolls" with the piano accompaniment of Mrs. Doll.
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A sailor who found the doll house and dolls on the Floating Island. No one on the ship
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Bertha E. Mahony (Miller) (1959). Norma R. Fryatt (ed.).
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A girl doll with the long yellow hair and a white dress.
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A China-Doll family happily lives in a dollhouse at a
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Floating Island (book)
Floating island (disambiguation)

Anne Parrish
Anne Parrish
Harper & Brothers
hardback
OCLC
1654627
children's novel
Anne Parrish
toy shop
dollhouse
The Horn Book Magazine
Newbery Honor
Children's literature portal
The Honey Heart of Earth: In the books of Anne and Dillwyn Parrish from A Horn Book Sampler On Children S Books And Reading Selected From Twenty Five Years Of The Horn Book Magazine 1924 1948
ISBN
978-0-87675-030-8
"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present"
American Library Association
Categories
1930 American novels
American children's novels
Newbery Honor-winning works
Novels set on islands
Sentient toys in fiction
Fictional floating islands
1930 children's books
Children's books set on islands

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