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Edith #3
The Doll and the Kitten
Edith, the doll featured in Dare Wright's best-selling "The Lonely Doll" book series, together with her friends, Mr. Bear and Little Bear, spend a summer vacation on a farm in the mountains of upstate New York. They explore the nooks and crannies of a very large barn, and find the barnyard and hillsides an irresistible playground. It is not long before Edith falls in love with an adorable calf. Mr. Bear, however, will not give Edith permission to bring the calf back to their home in New York City. Edith then tries convincing him to let her keep a newborn colt or a baby lamb, but Mr. Bear will have nothing to do with the adoption of a large farm animal to keep them company in their apartment in New York City. When Edith discovers a tiny kitten living in the hayloft, she's certain that she has found the perfect pet, and waits for the right moment to ask Mr. Bear if she can keep it. But before that happens, the kitten gets stuck on the highest beam in the barn. Edith's plan to rescue the kitten by having Little Bear hoist her up in a basket goes awry when they both end up dangling over the straw. Mr. Bear comes to their rescue, lowering Little Bear gently, and making sure that Edith and the kitten get safely down in the basket. He agrees that Edith can keep her kitten, and the vacation ends happily.
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First published June 1, 1960
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May 18, 2024
OMG THIS BOOK WAS SO. CUTE!!! Totes adorbs and I wish I had a little one to read it to, I could easily see it becoming a favorite.
5, this is too cute, stars!
5, this is too cute, stars!
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January 27, 2016
This is the first book I ever read. I distinctly remember sitting as a young child with my mother while she helped me sound out the word "up." It made such an impression on me, maybe because I love kittens, dolls and teddy bears (in that order).
May 11, 2021
Another adorable Lonely Doll book that my son and I read.
July 11, 2013
Similar in tone to "Edith and Midnight", where our favorite waif doll and her two bear companions frolic around a farm. Edith pines for just about any animal with a heartbeat, though, asking Mr. Bear for permission to adopt on separate occasions a calf, a colt and a baby lamb.
"The Doll and The Kitten" is the third book in the Lonely Doll Series - why is she lonely? It's like The Lone Rangers in "Airheads" - and was photographed in 1960 on a farm in the Catskill Mountains. Dare shot all the pics and developed them in her NYC apartment darkroom. She did it again!
"The Doll and The Kitten" is the third book in the Lonely Doll Series - why is she lonely? It's like The Lone Rangers in "Airheads" - and was photographed in 1960 on a farm in the Catskill Mountains. Dare shot all the pics and developed them in her NYC apartment darkroom. She did it again!
Shelved as 'read-to-bobby'
September 24, 2011what a coup finding this at the library bookstore for $2. i will try not to let the spanking photo haunt me, and focus on the bratty shenanigans of the doll. i love how she is totally not going to tell mr bear her plan to keep the kitten.
December 20, 2022
Just as odd as I remember it being. The spanking picture especially; I am unsettled.
Anyways I had gone down a wikipedia spiral, found out that this author was like... very odd (more on that when I read her biography), and that some of the Lonely Doll series first editions sell for a ton of money. I remembered vividly reading these, and I knew I had a first edition somewhere!! Then I found it and realized it's in shit condition because of the lineage of people it went through and how all of us treated it horribly. Oh well...
Also it's so weird having friends on Goodreads now because for so long I spoke into the void like this was my personal diary and now I realize people actually see what I say. haha that makes me feel uncomfortably seen but also I like having people see my rants. whoops this is getting too long and also is NOT at all a book review.
Anyways I had gone down a wikipedia spiral, found out that this author was like... very odd (more on that when I read her biography), and that some of the Lonely Doll series first editions sell for a ton of money. I remembered vividly reading these, and I knew I had a first edition somewhere!! Then I found it and realized it's in shit condition because of the lineage of people it went through and how all of us treated it horribly. Oh well...
Also it's so weird having friends on Goodreads now because for so long I spoke into the void like this was my personal diary and now I realize people actually see what I say. haha that makes me feel uncomfortably seen but also I like having people see my rants. whoops this is getting too long and also is NOT at all a book review.
June 7, 2020
I received this as a gift from my grandma when I was about five years old. Loved it then and still love it. Charming pictures.
December 5, 2020
SUCH a weird series.
October 2, 2008
A childhood favorite.
December 14, 2019
Weird book -- she gets awfully pissy about not being able to bring animals home...
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