The Paper Dolls

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Some of the text also made me think of little red riding hood and there are lots of links to this in the image of the girl's imagination, including her grandma, a house in the woods and a wolf. Original questions and guidelines for philosophical discussion by Jessica Mejía and Emily Knuth (October 2020). This year, this may be particularly relevant for many children who have experienced losses in many different ways. The children seemed to enjoy the repetitiveness of the paper dolls names as they began to say the names aloud with me. They soon escape the clutches of the toy dinosaur and the snapping jaws of the oven-glove crocodile, but then a very real pair of scissors threatens .

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

It takes the concept of fragility and what happens to the things we love - that sometimes, (every)thing is not ours to keep forever. This book is about a girl who creates her very own five paper dolls and begins to take them on imaginary adventures to places that are well illustrated in the book. The Paper Dolls is a beautiful and evocative story from Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb, the bestselling creators of The Everywhere Bear.

As the little girl grows up and becomes a mother herself, she holds this memory in her mind and shares it with her own daughter. With beautiful page spreads to pore over together, this lovely picture book is ideal for sharing and will touch both children and adults alike. Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie and Jim with two noses and Jo with the bow sing, dance, jump, and battle a dinosaur. Talking of memory, this is the big shift at the end of the book because this is where the paper dolls end up existing after the whole Cutting Up Incident. If it was not appropriate to discuss loss in detail with a particular class, the book could still easily be enjoyed without putting a focus on that discrete link.

[The Paper Dolls] (By: Julia Donaldson) [published: June

I love that there’s a character who acts terribly and doesn’t receive retribution, simply the attitude that his actions weren’t important in the long run. It's always so interesting to read my old reviews -- last time I picked up on some things that I didn't even think about this time around, and vice versa!One day she finds a wibbly wobbly one and doesn't know what to do, but as always Grandpa is on hand with a few ideas.