Louise Fatio (1904–1993)
Autor de The Happy Lion
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: via Verlag Herder
Series
Obras de Louise Fatio
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1904-08-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1993-07-26
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Switzerland
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New Jersey, USA
- Ocupaciones
- children's book author
- Relaciones
- Duvoisin, Roger (Spouse)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Miembros
- 1,083
- Popularidad
- #23,733
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 98
- Idiomas
- 5
Premise/plot: A [nameless] doll lives at an antique shop. She longs to belong to a girl--to be loved, cherished, treasured, played with. There is one such girl in the neighborhood, Marie, but both doll and girl know this isn't to be. She's much too "valuable" to be purchased by a poor girl. She's purchased--by someone to be an antique showpiece...but it is thanks to some mischievous pets that this doll finds her forever home with Marie.
My thoughts: I thought the story was charming and delightful in an old-fashioned, vintage way. This one was first published in the 1950s. It is a bit on the text heavy side. But as an adult, of course, I don't mind a bit. I don't know if today's generation is much interested in porcelain dolls. But I enjoyed this one very much.… (más)