Candy Floss
by Rumer Godden
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A doll named Candy Floss is very happy serving as Jack's lucky charm at his stall at the fair, until a spoiled rich girl steals her.Tags
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This book by Rumer Godden has not held up quite as well over time as some of her other stories. This is the story of a doll who is the good luck charm for the boy who runs the ball throwing event at various fairs. I find it interesting that the doll's owner was a boy yet he made clothes for her so she could twirl around, attracting customers to his venue.
Read in a collection, so, no pictures. Too simplistic & didactic for me, at least without art and/or at this time of my life. I might have liked it when I was a child, but I don't believe even then I would have reread or treasured it.
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Margaret Rumer Godden was born Dec. 10, 1907, in Sussex, England. She was nine months old when her family moved to India, where her father ran a shipping line. She returned to London at age 20 to learn how to teach dance to children, and opened a school back in India. Returning to England while she was pregnant, she wrote her first book, "Chinese show more Puzzle," published in 1936. Her marriage to a stockbroker, Laurence Sinclair Foster, ended in 1941, leaving her penniless. In an effort to pay off her former husband's debts, Godden moved her family into a mountain cottage where she ran a school, made herbal teas for sale, and wrote books. Another novel of India, "The River," published in 1949, was one of her most acclaimed books and was made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1951. She returned to England to stay in 1945. Rumer Godden was the author of more than 60 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, plays and non-fiction. She published her 21st novel, "Cromartie vs. the God Shiva," in 1997. Rumer Godden died a year later on November 8, 1998, in Thornhill, Scotland, at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1960
- Dedication
- For Jane who thought of it
- First words
- Once upon a time there was a doll who lived in a cocoanut shy.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Cocoa begged, Nuts frisked, and Candy Floss went round and round.
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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