![]() ![]() Brown’s atmospheric but docile watercolors often view the matryoshka dolls from a distance, furthering the sense that the story is about events surrounding the dolls, instead of the dolls themselves. In the meantime, a young girl who has bought the rest of the set on sale charmingly tucks a little wad of cotton into the next-to-smallest doll so she won’t feel empty. It is an odyssey in which she has absolutely no active part, nor does she have reactions, for all she possesses is a blank matryoshka face. ![]() The outer doll, Anna, has been instructed by the maker to watch over her siblings-“Keep your sisters safe inside you”-but there is nothing she can do when the smallest doll, Nina, is accidentally brushed off the counter and unceremoniously kicked out the door. ![]() A set of the nesting dolls is carved in a Russian village and then sent to a toy shop in America. PLB 0-7868-2125-6 As is true for Pam Conrad’s Tub People, the events in a matryoshka doll’s life depend on external manipulations and circumstances in this case, it makes the story of a perilous journey fall somewhat flat. ![]()
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