The Five Sisters
by Margaret Mahy
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Before Sally's Nana can finish filling in the faces on a row of paper dolls which she has cut out, the five sisters are whisked off on a series of extraordinary adventures.Tags
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A beginning chapter book about five paper dolls joined hand-in-hand who go on a journey and each get colored in, one-by-one, by different people who find them along their wind-blown travels. The dolls are infused with different personalities, but remain bonded together even though they are very different people. Elements of friendship, differences, serendipity, finding out who you truly are, and also a touch of the idea that when you die you become a part of everything around you.
Absolutely beautiful fable for all ages. If you write, or draw, or sing, or tell stories, or adventure, or wish you did, join these paper-doll girls as they discover their identitities with the help of some special people and other beings. It took me about 1/2 hour to read. I now feel inspired to make my own paper-dolls, which would require me to be more creative than I've been for decades.
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Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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