The Paper Dolls

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This book is about a girl who creates her very own five paper dolls and begins to take them on imaginary adventures to places that are well illustrated in the book. Towards the end of the story, a boy comes along and snips the dolls into pieces. When I started reading this book I wasn't sure where it was going as I didn't think there'd be much to a story about paper dolls but I was pleasantly surprised about the ending. The children enjoyed looking at each of the paper dolls and seeing all the places the young girl took them and it made them want to make some paper dolls too. I really like the ending and how we see that even if something or someone is gone they're still in our memories. This is a hard concept for young children to understand but the book shows it beautifully. I really loved this book. I thought it was beautifully illustrated and would really get the children’s imaginations working. The children could make their own paper dolls and write about the adventures they go on. The children could also write an adventure for the paper dolls that are made by the girl when she is a mum at the end of the story.

The Paper Dolls - Julia Donaldson

The next set of questions concerns memory. After the boy snips the paper dolls and the dolls regather themselves in the little girl’s memory, they apparently encounter other items in the little girl’s memory. They find “white mice and fireworks, and a starfish soap, and a kind granny, and the butterfly hairslide, and more and more lovely things each day and each year.” Students are asked about the nature of memory. What is memory and where is it? Why does it exist? Why does it seem to hold some things that are imaginary (like the white mice) and some things that were once real (like the kind granny and the butterfly hairslide)? Julia Donaldson is one of today's most popular writers. Her bestselling titles include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child and Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays and songs. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! Age 5-7 Alittle girl makes some paper dolls with her mother’s help. She names and plays with them constantly, having all sorts of adventures including escaping danger from a dinosaur, tiger and crocodile. Holding hands, the paper dolls escape all of these dangers until they meet the ultimate threat – a pair of scissors! Cut to pieces, the only place the dolls can fly is into the little girl’s memory along with manyother very special things. And then, years later, she is able to teach her own daughter to make paper dolls too. A lovely story with beautiful illustrations about imagination, memory, and links between generations which will give you lots to talk about and do. Watch a trailer which animates the beginning of the story I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.Two more themes I latched onto this time were the power of imagination, and... the afterlife I guess lol. For the girl, it doesn't matter so much when the paper dolls are destroyed, because she can still play with them in her memory. They're gone, but they're not really gone, because she remembers them. The Paper Dolls is a beautifully-illustrated book by Cobb, that portrays the relationship between mother and daughter. The Paper Dolls vanished depicted to role of memories in our lives and the lasting effect they have. You could help your child write their paper doll adventure story in a zig zag book and then they can illustrate it. Make a memory box One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading.

The Paper Dolls | Association of Child Psychotherapists The Paper Dolls | Association of Child Psychotherapists

People create items all the time: pieces of art, crafts, useful and useless objects, fun objects, etc. What is the relationship between the creator and the creation? Questions for Philosophical Discussion Existence of fictional objects and characters/Imagination

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