Elizabeti's Doll

By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale, S.A. Bodeen

Book Overview

Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva. When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva. When Mama sings to the baby, Elizabeti sings to Eva. And one day when Eva turns up lost, Elizabeti realizes just how much she loves her special doll. Sure to become a classic story for bedtime or naptime, Elizabeti's Doll is a universal tale of love and tenderness that will touch readers of all ages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880000709
• ISBN13: 9781880000700
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

One of the most charming children's books I've ever read

As the mother of two young girls, I have read hundreds of picture books. "Elizabeti's Doll" is, in my opinion, a rarity: a book for children whose characters and plot are unique, compelling and satisfying, all within a handful of words on a few pages. This book is what literature should be for adults and kids. Elizabeti is a completely endearing character, who reminds adults and children that childhood has its special joys, and high among those is the ability to involve the entire family in a fantasy world of the child's own making. Elizabeti turns a rock into the family's new baby, whom everyone loves and cherishes right along with her. It's a story about what is best in all of us.

Beautiful

The power of love is gently told in this tale of a little Tanzanian girl and her doll, Eva, who is a rock. My four-year-old grand-daughter, an American child living in rural Idaho, identified immediately with Elizabeti, telling me that, "It's okay if her doll is a rock, Gramma. That's okay." She loves this story, and so do I. As a children's librarian in a public library, I use it often in story times. It's an excellent choice for reading aloud. Also, it has been selected as a finalist in the North Carolina Children's Book Award Program 2000. Obviously, I highly recommend this book!

Kitabu hii, inamzuri kabisa! Asante sana, mama baily!

Reading this book reminded me of children I knew in Tanzania. Encouraging a child's creativity is a universal theme to be celebrated around the world. We are giving this book to our nieces and nephews. Hongera kwa kitabu kizuri.

This is a wonderfully sweet book for children.

Elizabeti's Doll is the imagination of children. It is a book that a child will want to read over and over again. Be sure to find this one at your bookstore.

how sweet it is to be loved by elizabeti!

the story is enlightening, the illustrations endearing. great things are going to happen with this book. it's award winning material. every family should read it together in the comfort of an easy chair, their living room sofa, their front porch, the front year or the field next door. absolutely charming.