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Title The silent playmate : a collection of doll stories / edited and with an introduction by Naomi Lewis ; illustrated by Harold Jones
Published London : Gollancz, 1979

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 MELB CRC  808.83103555 L6753/S  AVAILABLE
Description 220 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
regular print
Contents The lost doll / Charles Kingsley -- The memoirs of a London doll / Mrs Fairstar -- The steadfast tin soldier / Hans Christian Andersen -- The darkest hour is just before dawn / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Vasilissa, Baba Yaga, and the Little Doll / retold by Naomi Lewis -- The dumb soldier / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rag bag / Ruth Ainsworth -- Rocking-horse land / Laurence Housman -- Elizabeth / Liesel Moak Skorpen -- The magic child / Bernard Henderson and C. Calvert -- The town in the library / E. Nesbit -- Dolly's adventure / Jo Donovan -- Gertrude's child / Richard Hughes -- The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield -- Chinese ballad / Mao Tse Tung -- A departure / Kenneth Grahame -- Where do old things go to? / Arthur Waley
Notes Children's literature in English, 1837-1978. Special subjects: Dolls. Anthologies (BNB/PRECIS)
Bibliography Bibl.: pages 213-219
Audience children
Subject Children's stories, English.
Children's stories.
Dolls -- Juvenile fiction.
Playmates -- Juvenile fiction.
Short stories.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Lewis, Naomi.
ISBN 0575026189