Anna maria the titular doll of the doll in the garden ends up playing a minor role in the story itself but the few descriptions are eerie both in her appearance she s an antique china doll with spiderweb cracks in her face and teeth and in the way she s discovered buried in a doll sized coffin with her name on it.
The doll in the garden by mary downing hahn.
Hahn lives in columbia maryland.
Mary leans towards time travel rather than hauntings.
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The doll in the garden.
Ashley s abduction of the doll not only parallels the earlier one but is a manifestation of her unresolved grief.
Hahn uses her satisfyingly mysterious spooky story to illuminate the interaction of people in the present.
Dead to begin with.
She lives in columbia maryland with a cat named nixi and pursues her interest in travel and.
Moreover it is because mom and ashley have a healthy loving relationship that each has tried to protect the other by keeping her grief to herself.
A former librarian mary has received more than fifty child voted state awards for her work.
After ashley and kristi find an antique doll buried in old miss cooper s garden they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn of the century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
By mary downing hahn.
I unhesitatingly pick up anything mary downing hahn publishes and spotted the doll in the garden 1989.
The doll in the garden.
I savour the way she plunges into otherworldliness nonetheless.
After ashley and kristi find an antique doll buried in old miss cooper s garden.
Her work has won more than fifty child voted state awards.
The doll in the garden.
It was first published in 1989.
Mary downing hahn is the author of some three dozen acclaimed novels including such beloved ghost stories as the girl in the locked room took the ghost of crutchfield hall and wait till helen comes.
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I count on her to tread there and didn t let this novel sit on my dresser longer than one day.