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BEFORE Vogue -- even long before Godey's Lady's Book -- our feminine ancestors learned about the new styles from dolls which literally carried the fashion news on their backs from country to country. Doll-minded little girls will be entranced with the unfolding of a family mystery that leads to the whereabouts of a doll described in a century old letter.
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Debby Moore first learns about Gay Event when she and her mother are packing up to move to the ancestral farm in New Hampshire, currently owned by Debby's Great-Uncle Nate, while Debby's dad is overseas. Mrs. Moore finds two letters written by Debby's great-great-great grandmother, Deborah Moore. One is from 1832 and the other from 1842. The letters are reproduced as cursive handwriting, complete with 19th century spelling. Deborah writes about the doll in both letters. In the first we read an enthusiastic description of Gay Event and her wardrobe. In the second, Deborah has moved to England and, expecting to come back, had left the doll in her special hiding place.
Of course Debby is enthusiastic about finding the doll, even though generations have looked for it. Two things stand out for me in the description of Moore Farm: the huge old elm with the hole in it and the fact that the old-fashioned stove has raised-up dragons on it. (I wish our stove did.) There are illustrations of both tree and stove. One of the nice things about a book illustrated by the author is that you can be sure the art is as close to what the author envisioned as s/he could make it.
Debby has an unusual encounter with a neighbor boy, Butch, who eventually helps her with her search. He also has an Aunt Ariel Simpson, who collects dolls. She meets Mrs. Simpson at the Goyette Museum. From her she learns more about fashion dolls, thanks to one on display that's named 'Pretty Please'. From what Debby is told, she knows that Gay Event must have been an even fancier doll.
We learn along with Debby as Great-Uncle Nate tells her what life was like for the settlers. There are lesser discoveries during some remodeling (more like restoration, really). I enjoyed them all, but none so much as the discovery of the wonderful fashion doll. The chapters describing Gay Event ( )