Impunity Jane;: The story of a pocket doll

by Rumer Godden

Hardcover, 1954

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Available

Publication

Viking Press (1954), 47 pages

Description

"Can a doll be a hero? Hardly. China and wax, wood and rag are not heroic stuffs, but perhaps Impunity Jane, the little pocket doll had something of the irresistable charm of the imp in her song, 'Imp-imp-impunity,' or perhaps, like a cat, she had nine lives. She was a pocket doll, made to go in a pocket-atleast that was what she thought - everyone else thought she should go in a doll's house. Rumer Godden, who is well known to children as author of many other delightful books, tells the story of how at last Impunity Jane got into a pocket. A pocket isn't shut away like a doll's house: in it one meets the rough and tumble life, and this is also the story, charmingly illustrated, how Impunity Jane had to be brave, to suffer and endure like any hero, and of how she escaped...with impunity."--Book jacket.… (more)

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LibraryThing member thornton37814
Rumer Godden has an ability to make dolls have feelings in her story. This is the story of a doll who wished very much to be a pocket doll rather than one which sat in a doll house. Unfortunately she was purchased by someone for a dollhouse. She kept wishing for a home in a pocket, but every time
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she changed owners, she ended up back in the same dollhouse. One day she finally gets her wish. Will it last? I'll let you read it to see how the story turns out.
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