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Cornhusk, Silk, and Wishbones: A Book of Dolls from Around the World Hardcover - 2000
by Michelle Markel
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They are fashioned out of materials as varied as themselves wishbones, apples, clay, bread, ivory, palm leaves, and sealskin. They come from the tropics and the tundra, the desert and the mountains, from times of war and times of peace. What they wear tells us of their homes. Their faces are calm, fierce, beautiful, wistful, ugly, inscrutable. Dolls have been cherished throughout time by children all around the world children who have carried them, dressed them, and whispered secrets to them.
With haunting photographs and a text that speaks poignantly of the time when children must leave their dolls behind, this book captures the uncanny and enduring comfort of dolls.
Michelle Markel wrote this book out of a deep affection for dolls and for folk art. She was given the idea for her book by a little green and purple doll, an alebrije, in a glass case at a Mexican folk art exhibit.” She believes that dolls have the power to lead children into worlds not their own.
With haunting photographs and a text that speaks poignantly of the time when children must leave their dolls behind, this book captures the uncanny and enduring comfort of dolls.
Michelle Markel wrote this book out of a deep affection for dolls and for folk art. She was given the idea for her book by a little green and purple doll, an alebrije, in a glass case at a Mexican folk art exhibit.” She believes that dolls have the power to lead children into worlds not their own.
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For centuries, people have created little objects shaped like themselves.
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- Title Cornhusk, Silk, and Wishbones: A Book of Dolls from Around the World
- Author Michelle Markel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780618054879 / 0618054871
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 10.61 x 0.42 in (23.65 x 26.95 x 1.07 cm)
- Ages 06 to UP years
- Grade levels 1 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Dolls, Dolls - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99089789
- Dewey Decimal Code 688.722
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