There....there are more than one Doll book? (gapes in happy shock)
I'd forgotten about A Dolls House but I know I have it around here somewhere. I remember that wicked Marchpane, and sweet little Apple...oh, that was a wonderful book. I didn't know it was a series. I will have to find those immediately.
Since we're talking about books that were extremely old when I was quite young, anyone remember "The Surprise of Their Lives?" (by Hazel Hutchins Wilson, per Amazon) There were a brother and sister whose little sister got scarlet fever, and they couldn't go home, and they had to stay at the nasty overly strict elderly neighbor's house, and somehow they accidentally stowed away on a cruise ship...
Oh, and what about Jane's Father (by Dorothy Keely Aldis, per Amazon)? Jane's father was very silly--I think they wound up putting his head in a birdcage at one point. And calomel was the cure-all, which confused me because I'd never heard of it. I thought it must be a precursor to St. Joseph's Baby Aspirin.
I liked Carolyn Haywood's Betsy books too, though it was odd because they started out way before my time and suddenly there was a time warp and they became quite contemporary to my mid-70s childhood.
This happened with Beverly Cleary too--Henry Huggins was a 50s kid with a coonskin cap watching Davy Crockitt and Ramona was a 3-year-old enamored with a Howdy Doody analog. And then when Ramona starts kindergarten she's a 70s kid, and then her father loses his job in the 70s recession and her mother goes back to work around the time my mother does the same...it was sort of confusing.
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I'd forgotten about A Dolls House but I know I have it around here somewhere. I remember that wicked Marchpane, and sweet little Apple...oh, that was a wonderful book. I didn't know it was a series. I will have to find those immediately.
Since we're talking about books that were extremely old when I was quite young, anyone remember "The Surprise of Their Lives?" (by Hazel Hutchins Wilson, per Amazon) There were a brother and sister whose little sister got scarlet fever, and they couldn't go home, and they had to stay at the nasty overly strict elderly neighbor's house, and somehow they accidentally stowed away on a cruise ship...
Oh, and what about Jane's Father (by Dorothy Keely Aldis, per Amazon)? Jane's father was very silly--I think they wound up putting his head in a birdcage at one point. And calomel was the cure-all, which confused me because I'd never heard of it. I thought it must be a precursor to St. Joseph's Baby Aspirin.
I liked Carolyn Haywood's Betsy books too, though it was odd because they started out way before my time and suddenly there was a time warp and they became quite contemporary to my mid-70s childhood.
This happened with Beverly Cleary too--Henry Huggins was a 50s kid with a coonskin cap watching Davy Crockitt and Ramona was a 3-year-old enamored with a Howdy Doody analog. And then when Ramona starts kindergarten she's a 70s kid, and then her father loses his job in the 70s recession and her mother goes back to work around the time my mother does the same...it was sort of confusing.