Marjorie Stover (1914–2013)
Autor de Midnight in the Dollhouse
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Stover, Marjorie Filley
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-06-23
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2013-04-24
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Tuscon, Arizona, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Educación
- University of Nebraska (1935)
- Ocupaciones
- children's book author
teacher - Biografía breve
- Marjorie Filley Stover was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1935, she taught school for two years. In 1937, she married John Ford Stover, a history professor with whom she had three children. The couple lived in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Texas, and Indiana for his career before finally retiring to Lincoln. In 1972, she published her first book for children, Trail Boss In Pigtails. It was followed by Chad and the Elephant Engine (1975), Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion (1985), When the Dolls Woke (1985), and Midnight in the Dollhouse (1990).
Miembros
Debates
Children's book, dollhouse, dolls from all over the world, one named Martinique? en Name that Book (Febrero 2009)
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- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 517
- Popularidad
- #48,026
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 11
Actually never-mind, that's the prequel to this story, 'Midnight in the Dollhouse', which isn't in the Booklikes database. Many characters in 'When the Dollhouse Woke' fondly recall how Captain Vance built lame Melissa the dollhouse. I just wonder - Is that what people called her to her face? 19th century life was tough!
In this book Gail has just moved to a new part of town and is cut off from her best friend FOREVER because of it. That's right, still in the same town, in Indiana, but no longer friends. So Gail is lonesome, until a great-great aunt sends her Lame Melissa's dollhouse because Aunt Abby has lost all of her WASP fortune and must sell her Boston-area mansion, and everything in it, so she can go to a posh retirement home with her Nantucket friends. Everything, that is, but the dollhouse, because she promised her mad father (the Captain) she would never sell it, because there be treasure.
The rest of the book alternates between dollhouse-porn and conversations with the whiny dolls. It's revealed that one doll, Martinique, has been missing for some time, but the dolls are happy about that because she told scary voodou stories to the doll children and her presence made the rest of them feel uncomfortable.
Nice.
But she comes BACK, will she ruin everything? Will the secret treasure be found? Will the privileged old lady still have to sell her mansion?
And yes, I did see the pink cover with the vapid blonde girl and read the title 'When the Dolls Woke', but, it was on a free-pile and sometimes these weird scholastic books pay off. I even gave this two stars to start with because the story does wrap up nicely with Gail making friends with old people left and right and conning the girls in class to trade their treasures to her for a chance to check out her sweet, sweet dollhouse, but when I actually started writing the review I realized that not everybody is going to think that earnest stories about a Lame Melissa, or the whole Martinque situation, are hilariously misguided. Most people would just be horrified. For the right little girl (or boy, though this book tries really, really hard to push them away) this might be fun if they can't find the better creepy dolls come alive books.… (más)