Synopsis
After her father has a serious heart attack, Margo awakes to find herself in the body of one of the dolls that he recently made for her and she desperately tries to contact her father's soul.
Margo's father, a woodworker, makes her a dollhouse and also carves two small dolls, named Butch and Sis, to live there. Before he can carve a mother and father for the siblings, he has a heart attack and is confined to the hospital. Worried about her father, Margo distracts herself by playing with the dollhouse. One night she finds that she has been magically turned into the doll named Sis. She now can communicate with Butch and even helps him wallpaper the dollhouse rooms. Margo/Sis is convinced that she has been sent into the world of the dollhouse for a reason, a reason somehow connected to her father. But what can that be?
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-09-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 122 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Margo's father makes a wonderful dollhouse for her and then two wooden dolls, Butch and Sis. Before he can make the dolls' parents, however, he has a severe heart attack and surgery. Margo and her mother are cared for by loving family, but it's a hard time for them. Margo occupies herself with the dollhouse and one night becomes Sis. Full color.
Industry Reviews
Gr 4-6 After her father suffers a serious heart attack, Margo finds herself drawn toward the nearly completed dollhouse he had built for her. In order to escape her worries, she decides to wallpaper the rooms belonging to the two wooden dolls, Butch and Sis. However, one morning she discovers that Butch's room has been mysteriously papered. The next night, she finds herself in Sis's body. Worried that her father's spirit has left his body and that he will not recover until it returns, she leads Butch on an adventure-filled trip to find it. Details, such as the way in which the dolls are constructed and how that affects their ability to move, are carefully and convincingly drawn. Even secondary characters are well developed and have unique personalities. Dialogue is used frequently and effectively, and the interchanges between Butch and Sis are both humorous and typical. The author creates a fantasy world so naturally that readers are drawn into it and willingly suspend disbelief. They will have little difficulty accepting either the situation or the surprising ending. A fast-moving, well-plotted, memorable novel. Wendy D. Caldiero, New York Public Library
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