The Hidden House
by Martin Waddell
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With the owner gone, three dolls watch as their house becomes hidden by growing plants and trees until a man walks by and discovers the residence.Tags
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The class loved this book! We had a great time talking about how WE thought the dolls were feeling and what we thought they must be thinking. This book is full of emotion and allows children to analyze the emotional that they see in a particular situation. We also see the passage of time and aging. The world around the dolls is moving forward and aging but the dolls remain the same, frozen in time until they are given new life.
This book is about a lonely man who creates dolls so he does not feel so alone. One day he leaves and the dolls are alone for years until a family comes and the daughter takes them for herself. This book has a spookiness that brings chills up your spin while you read it.
There are three dolls that are left in a lonley house by themselves until a family comes and moves into the house. The writer writes "I think" followed by the dolls feelings. This would be great for students to use the context clues to explain why the dolls feel this way.
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Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company. Waddell is now one of the most show more prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton. He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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