The Paper Dolls

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This year, this may be particularly relevant for many children who have experienced losses in many different ways. People create items all the time: pieces of art, crafts, useful and useless objects, fun objects, etc. Internally in good condition, last page crease at bottom corner, BUT covers are noticeably creased with some small tears.

The Paper Dolls Paperback – Picture Book, 6 Jun. 2013

I thought the meaning behind the story is beautiful: creating memories by making paper dolls with your mother and playing with them.The book could help children to understand loss through a positive view of no one ever completely leaving, suggesting they can always be with you. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust wrapper. A nice game is to look for the stars (the ceiling decoration), the tiger (her slippers) and the lost butterfly (her hairslide) in every page of the book. The Paper Dolls is the first picture book I read by Julia Donadson without Axel Scheffler's illustrations (I really like them! The Paper Dolls' by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb This is a moving story that explores the idea of loss and memory for young children.

The Paper Dolls - Teaching Children Philosophy - Prindle The Paper Dolls - Teaching Children Philosophy - Prindle

We encourage educators to visit the Association for Library Service to Children’s resource guide for talking to children about issues of race and culture in literature. It is a tender, partly rhyming and comfortingly repetitive tale that is easy for children to remember and recite back - it was a real winner with my two. Although the dolls’ destruction was a shock, it does teach young children about loss, how ultimately nothing lasts forever and how all things change which is a valuable life lesson to take away. I must admit that I only picked up this book because it is written by Julia Donaldson and I do like her books such as The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child.The girl and the dolls go on a bus, to a farmyard and even have a close encounter with a crocodile (played by her mother). With beautiful page spreads to pore over together, this lovely picture book is ideal for sharing and will touch both children and adults alike. I would think it makes for a great read aloud book with your child(ren) as the rhymes are quite apt and beautiful.

The Paper Dolls | Association of Child Psychotherapists The Paper Dolls | Association of Child Psychotherapists

I think this book is good for children to realise that as long as you create great memories (like she did with her paper dolls), you will never really forget them. On a separate note, the book reminded me of my mother (or was it my late Grandma, who used to cut paper dolls for us to play with, when we were children. Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie and Jim with two noses and Jo with the bow sing, dance, jump, and battle a dinosaur. Although some might say it is realistic that mean and sad things happen and you don't always get an apology I think books aimed at young children have a responsibility to encourage positive behaviour and the boy in this story just gets away with it and the girl just has to accept the destruction of something precious to her and neither of those things are fair or positive in my opinion. This is a beautiful story about a young girl who makes five paper dolls, and goes on imaginative adventures with them.One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. Cut to pieces, the only place the dolls can fly is into the little girl’s memory along with manyother very special things. My eldest daughter enjoyed reading it out to us herself and using the repeat of the dolls’ names in a rhythmic way which sounded nice. Find out about the record breaking longest chain of paper dolls made in 2013 here Maybe you could make a really long chain of paper dolls too! There is an opportunity for artwork here, to allow children to make their own paper dolls, and naming the dolls would provide an opportunity to practice alliteration and rhyming.