The Very Best Doll

Written and illustrated by Julia Noonan

A beautiful new birthday doll is lovely, but at bedtime only a well-loved old favorite will do.

24 pages· 139 words· Est. 2 min read-aloud· ~70L

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Bookroo's summary

The old cloth doll has always been there to cuddle and hold. The new birthday doll, with her blue silk dress and fancy hair, is beautiful, but when it's time for bed she just isn't the same as the favorite old doll for snuggling up close. A gentle story about well-loved toys.

From the publisher

For doll lovers of all ages, here is a picture-perfect ode to everyone’s very best doll. She’s the always-been-there, cuddle-and-hold, much-loved, soft-cloth kind of doll. The new, birthday-surprise doll, with her blue silk dress and fancy, stylable hair, is pristine and breathtaking. But when it’s time to go to bed, she just isn’t the same as the favorite old doll for snuggling up close. With the meltingly soft, painterly illustrations that she used in her best-selling books Over the Rainbow, by E. Y. Harburg, and Dream Land, by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julia Noonan tells every girl’s story of the old, familiar, and enduring doll who can never be replaced by even the most elegant and beautiful new one.

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