The Doll People by Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin (2003, Paperback, Reprint)

For all little girls(even those who grew big) and maybe even some little boys..Remember when you were just positive the dolls you had would come alive at night when you went to sleep? Well, this book is based on that belief. It is about a family of china dollhouse dolls that are over 100 years old.. They have been in the same family their entire life. It's an adventure the young girl and her new friend from a modern Plastic dollhouse family go on to find a missing member of the family.. It may be a bit hard to read for a child younger than 8... but, us old kids can read it to them and remember what it was like to be that age and really, really believe our dolls lived! Delightful..