Books about dolls coming to life

Q: What is the book the doll people about?

Plot Summary: Annabelle Doll is 8 years old. Shes been 8 for more than a hundred years and lives in a dollhouse with her family—all antique china dolls, of course. Every day is a repeat of the same, until Annabelle discovers the journal of her missing aunt who has been gone for fifty years!

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What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

POSSIBLY SOLVED > Dolls come to life. Dollhouse. POSSIBLY SOLVED. Read probably in elementary school.

message 1: by Sarah (new)

Okay I literally have two details. The book involved dolls that came to life and a vivid description of the dollhouse. I read this probably in elementary school which was about 15 years ago.

I think doll MAYBE was in the title.

Does anyone had a suggestion they could throw out so maybe I can look through a try to find it?

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Sarah, I added plot details to your topic header. Feel free to edit it.

What type of dolls come to life, and what do they do?

Can you describe the dollhouse?

message 3: by Sarah (new)

I don't remember. I honestly don't think I remember them interacting with humans at all. I don't remember much about the dollhouse just that the things that were in it were described very vivdly.

message 4: by Megan (new)

The Doll People by Ann M. Martin?

When the Dolls Woke ?

At least, I think I remember detailed descriptions of the doll house in this one.

message 7: by Sarah (new)

I think its The Doll People! I am not 100% sure but that sounds so familiar!!! I'm going to have to check it out.

message 8: by Mindy (new)

message 9: by Sarah (new)

That sounds familiar too though! ahh I dont know ill just have to read both

I was about to suggest The Dollhouse Murders! I recall it being quite good. I believe it's something of a ghost story.

Or maybe Midnight in the Dollhouse. This is a book (1st in a series) about a family of dolls that lives in this gorgeous, detailed dollhouse and are either unwilling or unable to move/speak when humans are around, but they do want to help their girl owner, who is sick or lame or something and having family problems, and they have all these adventures and stuff when no humans are around. I recall really liked these stories as a kid.

Kristina wrote: "There's also a book called The Dollhouse Murders that is similar."

I was thinking of The Dollhouse Murders too - I don't know how many times I read that one as a child.

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message 13: by Sarah (new)

I'm pretty sure it was one of the books mentioned earlier. I don't think it was scary.

message 14: by Erica (new)

Just throwing one more option out there just in case: could it possibly be one of the Mennyms books by Sylvia Waugh? They're British though, and I see you're in the US, so it may not be likely. I'm from the UK, and I liked these books but they also used to freak me out a bit, haha, especially when the dolls pretended to eat!

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What is the book the doll people about?

Plot Summary: Annabelle Doll is 8 years old. She's been 8 for more than a hundred years and lives in a dollhouse with her family—all antique china dolls, of course. Every day is a repeat of the same, until Annabelle discovers the journal of her missing aunt who has been gone for fifty years!