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I had to sneak in one more Barbara Cooney book before our series came to an end. In The Story of Holly & Ivy, a doll wishes for a girl, an orphan girl wishes for a doll and a grandmother, and a woman wishes for a girl. Fate brings them together on Christmas day. Cooney’s illustrations are a delight paired with the lengthy text.
“This is a story about wishing. It is also about a doll and a little girl. It begins with the doll.”
Crime Scene [Setting]
Where?
Mr. Blossom’s toy shop—window was lit and warm and decorated, in a little country town
St. Agnes’s—big house in the city, where 30 boys and girls had to live together
Mrs. Jones’s home
When?
Christmas Eve
1930s? (Judging by clothing)
Suspects [Characters]
Who?
Holly—doll, dressed for Christmas, 12 inches high, real gold hair, brown eyes that could open and shut, teeth like tiny china pearls, newest toy in toy shop, lonely
The other toys: Mallow and Wallow the baby hippopotamuses, Abracadabra the owl, Crumple the elephant, other dolls
Mr. Blossom—toy shop owner
Peter—shop boy, fifteen, red cheeks and a wide smile; he took good care of the toys; helpful
Ivy—little girl six years old with straight hair cut in a fringe, blue-gray eyes, and a turned-up nose; lonely, orphan
Mrs. Jones—woman, married, childless, sad
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