In my last blog I talked about one of the very few downsides of being in the doll business… the fact that children love their dolls so passionately; and that occasionally they get lost, and very often we can do nothing to alleviate the pain.
How common this is, we illustrated in our last blog by printing the 150 year old poem by Charles Kingsley, The Lost Doll. Another wonderful take on ‘the lost doll’, is The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, with the beautiful illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline.
If you are not familiar with the story, Edward is a China Rabbit doll, who is accidentally lost at sea, found, and his adventures thereafter.
***WARNING and SPOILER*** This is not the book to read to a child who has lost a lovey or favorite doll recently. It may be too painful. And the fact that Edward does return at the end, albeit twenty years later, may inspire a false hope in your child as well.
But for every other doll lover, doll collector or parent who loves wonderful children’s books, we can’t recommend this book highly enough. It belongs on every doll lover’s bookshelf.