Highly recommended for Grades 4 to 6, or as a read aloud for youngers. Brian Selznick's illustration bring the characters and setting to life as they decorate every third or forth page and sometimes the text stops for a whole two page spread illustration. The characters are simply charming and this is really a wonderful, fun, adventurous story to read. This book was pure delight! It was very reminiscent to me of The Borrowers, though the little people here are dollhouse dolls. The Dolls now have some fun neighbours and Annabelle finds a friend with the Funcraft Family. Along her searches she finds another doll family that has come to live with the youngest daughter of the family. Forty-five years ago Auntie Sarah simply disappeared and no one speaks of her anymore but Annabelle Doll finds Auntie Sarah's secret journal and decides she will leave the house and start to search for her. It had been forty-five years since Annabelle Doll had last seen Auntie Sarah.Ĭomments: The Doll Family has lived at 26 Wetherby Lane for 100 years being passed down from mother to daughter all these years. But, I was at the library and saw book 3 of this series on display and it sent me running to find the first book. I was not going to start any new series unless they were associated with my arc reading. Reason for Reading: I've already broken a new year's reading resolution with this book.
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