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Informationen zum Autor Rumer Godden was one of the UK's most distinguished authors. She wrote many well-known books for adults and children, including THE STORY OF HOLLY AND IVY and THE DIDDAKOI, which won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1972. Rumer was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety. Christian Birmingham is one of the most outstanding children's book illustrators of his generation. He has been shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award, the Kurt Maschler Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Book Prize. His line drawings illustrate many best-selling novels by Michael Morpurgo. Vorwort Rumer Godden's classic story about the secret lives of dolls, illustrated by award-winning artist Christian Birmingham. Zusammenfassung Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family are owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and are very happy, except for one thing: they long for a proper home. To their delight, their wish comes true when Emily and Charlotte fix up a Victorian dolls' house – just for them. It's perfect. But then a new arrival starts to wreak havoc in the dolls' house. For Marchpane might be a wonderfully beautiful doll, but she is also terribly cruel. And she always gets her own way . . .
