![]() ![]() But Mama’s new husband doesn’t think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. It’s 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, Oregon, where she has been staying with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco’s speakeasies. He feels Dolls of Hope will help express to his young readers his company’s wish for world peace and friendship. He plans to publish in Spring of 2015 to tie the story to the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific. I’m thrilled that the Japanese publisher of translations of my “bears” picture books, beginning with Bears on Chairs, has also purchased Ship of Dolls and Dolls of Hope. ![]() Once again, children are exchanging letters of friendship. The surviving dolls are now on display in both countries. Others were lost to natural disasters such as flooding. American museums packed the Japanese dolls into storage and forgot them. The Japanese government ordered the American dolls destroyed. Sadly, a few years later World War II erupted and the dolls became symbols of the enemy. After receiving the dolls with celebration and ceremony, Japanese children sent back 58 elegant dolls of gratitude, each about three feet tall, with many accessories to show life in their country.Īll the dolls carried messages of friendship and peace. ![]()
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