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Dolls, Fiction, CollectionID:caldecotthonor50, Children's fiction
The memory of the doll Dulcy lost becomes more wonderful and exaggerated each time she talks about it.
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Spare, intimate, effortless and character-led.
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“There was once a little girl named Dulcy who found it hard to be satisfied with Things as They Are”
Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 – February 22, 1978) was an American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1961. McGinley enjoyed a wide readership in her lifetime, publishing her work in newspapers and women's magazines such as the Ladies Home Journal, as well as in literary periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Saturday Review and The Atlantic. She also held nearly a dozen honorary degrees – "including one from the stronghold of strictly masculine pride, Dartmouth College" (from the dust jacket of Sixpence in Her Shoe (copy 1964)). Ti
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