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Five Dolls in a House by Helen Clare, Aliki

jennyanydots's review

4.0

Tracked down another half remembered book from my childhood. Elizabeth discovers she can get small enough to visit the dolls in her dolls' house and they decide she's the landlady, and ask her to fix all the things they're unhappy with. This was first published in the 1950s, and my mother read it as a child, before finding it in the library and insisting I had to read it too. The dolls are Vanessa, Amanda, Lupin and Jane, plus Elizabeth's french doll, Jacqueline, who the other dolls have taken in as a paying guest, and there's a talkative monkey living on the roof who listens, and shouts, down the chimney, and a mouse-drawn carriage. The 4 stars is really for the nostalgia value, but now that I've got hold of it, I think my mother's going to be delighted to read it again, and we might fight for the privilege of reading it to my niece once she gets to about 4.