The Most Wonderful Doll in the World

Dulcy loved dolls, but she was always dissatisfied with something, and no doll had "it" all, that is, no doll before Angela. Angela was a blond haired doll given to her with a box full of clothes. When Dulcy lost her due to carelessness, her mother asked what Angela was like so they could find a replacement, Dulcy said "Oh no There'll never be another Angela. She was the most wonderful doll in the world...she had real yellow hair and eyes that opened and closed and she said Mama and Papa and sang Rock-a-bye Baby, and she could wave her hand and take steps. She had patent leather shoes with heels and a purse with a handkerchief in it..." and more. Dulcy loved to tell anyone who would listen about her lost doll. The memory of the doll became more wonderful and exaggerated each time she talked about her. Dulcy stopped playing with her other dolls as well, for none of them could measure up to Angela. But...What happens when Dulcy finds Angela in a pile of leaves and finds Angela wasn't what she had remembered? "She didn't even have patent leather shoes with heels or a purse with a handkerchief... This is a cute story of a girl who held on to a childhood dream only to find it was all imagined, and how she grew up and learned to be satisfied with things the way they where because of it.

This is a wondeful book for little girls 6-10. The reading level is probably 3rd grade or so, but it is a great story any Mom would enjoy reading outloud. There is a nostalgia there that makes me swear I read it when I was 8. The pictures are beautiful and the story is worth reading many times. My girls love it and my son also listens to it when I read it.