Title: Finding Walter
Author: Ann Turner
Page Count: 161
Young Adult
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Something strange happens when Emily and her sister Rose discover a dusty old dollhouse and long forgotten sleeping dolls in their grandmother’s attic. The dolls are delighted to be discovered. But Walter, the youngest boy doll, is missing. How can Walter’s doll family make the children know he is gone? Where can Walter be after all this time?
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I found this book by accident actually. I went looking for another kind of book in the young adult section at my library and they didn’t have it so I decided to check out other books and that’s when I found this one. I read the back of the book and it sounded so cute. Just about every little girl dreams of having a doll house or has a doll house at sometime in their life that their parents have bought them or one that was handed down to them. Every child has imagination and makes up what they want the dolls to say or do and so on. They play house and move the dolls around etc. Well in this book that is exactly that. Rose and Emily encounter. The doll house belonged to the young girls dad and his sister and it is all dusty because it has been in an attic for so many years.
The girls love their new doll house so much, well Emily more than Rose especially in the beginning. But what I loved so much about this book is that the dolls come to life without really being noticed, they are noticed by the dreams the young girls have and by the young girls thoughts. Some of the girls actions like buying a dog or wanting to go to this place or that place is because they had the feeling they should be doing that because the dolls think of these things or talk to each other when the girls are sleeping or some where else in the house. Like one of the dolls William wanted to go fishing and dreamed of catching his own fish, so Rose felt that he wanted to go so she went and found a stick and some string and she took him fishing and he caught his own fish. That is just one of the experiences that the girls have with the dolls, but there are many more, but what is missing is one very important doll named Walter. He went missing sometime after the girls daddy’s sister Alice moved. Throughout the girls experiences with the dolls and the dolls experiences of their new friends ( the girls) the one thing that remains missing is Walter, they try and try to find him. But do they? Are they able to get him back? Well you must read the book and find out.
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