Book description
When little Nona is sent from her sunny home in India to live with her
relatives in chilly England, she is miserable. Then a box arrives for
her in the post and inside, wrapped up in tissue paper, are two little
Japanese dolls. A slip of paper says their names are Miss Happiness and
Miss Flower. Nona thinks that they must feel lonely too, so far away
from home. Then Nona has an idea - she will build her dolls the perfect
house! It will be just like a Japanese home in every way. It will even
have a tiny Japanese garden. And as she begins to make Miss Happiness
and Miss Flower happy, Nona finds that she is happier too.
Rumer Godden was one of the UK's most distinguished authors. She
wrote many well-known and much-loved books for both adults and
children, including The Story of Holly and Ivy and The Dolls' House.
Her children's novel, The Diddakoi, won the Whitbread Children's Book
Award in 1972.
She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety.
Gary Blythe is a successful illustrator best-known for The Whale
Song , which won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award, and I Believe
in Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo. He lives in Merseyside.
