Book description
Fairy Doll has always been at the top of the Christmas tree, brilliant
in her white beaded dress and little silver shoes (which Elizabeth is
sure were sewn by fairy mice). Elizabeth is the smallest in the family.
She is always getting into trouble and her brothers and sisters are
forever leaving her out and ordering her around. She's convinced she's
useless. Then Great-Grandma gives Fairy Doll to Elizabeth - and it isn't
even Christmas! From then on Elizabeth keeps hearing a little 'Ting!'
which seems to tell her what to do. Suddenly everything starts going
right instead of wrong. Could Fairy Doll be magical?
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.
