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A feel good story for this time of year! 🎅🏻
This is a charming little Christmas story about a six-year-old orphan named Ivy who is searching for her (nonexistent) grandmother, a beautiful little Christmas doll named Holly looking for a child to love her, and a sad wife of a policeman yearning for that missing something to complete her life. Rich in atmosphere and the warmth of the heart, this sweet short will reveal the power of wishes and fill you with the true spirit of Christmas. Highly recommended for readers of all ages.
This was a lovely short read about a doll needing a girl and a girl needing a home. A christmassy magical book about hopes and wishes. Lovely illustrations. We think the owl in the toyshop must have been inspiration for hoot from old bear.
Illuminated by Barbara Cooney's gorgeous illustrations, Rumer Godden tells the story of Ivy, the girl in the green coat, and Holly, the doll in the red dress. It is Christmas Eve and three wishes have been made. Will they come true on Christmas Day? Not if Abracadabra the Owl has anything to say about it. Add this classic tale to your To Do list for the 2022 Holiday Season. You won't be sorry!
Every Christmas I check this out of the library to read to my kids. It is super sweet and heartwarming. UPDATE: Now I just read this to myself.
This edition is in a picture book format with illustrations by Barbara Cooney. It's nice but my favorite (and the one I read when I was seven) is in a chapter book binding with illustrations by Adrienne Adams. I scour antique stores for these older copies to add to my collection (is it weird to want multiple copies of the same book?) This is a Christmas story, a story of belonging, a story of loss and finding, a story of family. As a kid reading this book, it captured for me the power of being w...
What a sweet, beautiful story! All about the magic of wishing, and of love and belonging.The edition I read is quite old, 1950s, and has soft, old-fashioned illustrations by Adrienne Adams.
Short Movie of the Book : https://youtu.be/a07BhYNnaUk4 stars.This story ended with me having a smile on my face. I love these old fashioned type books. Such a lovely Christmas tale.
Although this is a 32 page long picture book, it’s text heavy, so it’s actually a fairly long story for a picture book.This is my new favorite Christmas story. I’m not big on gooey holiday stories, or holiday stories in general, but I just loved this.I appreciated how the doll and the six year old girl are both important characters.This is a sweet story about wishing for and finding a loving home, wishing and finding for both doll and girl.The illustrations are just lovely. Every detail is wonde...
A beautiful story about wishing ... which is really childlike-prayer, or the prayer of the innocent. Holly, a little doll, looking for a girl to love her and Ivy, an orphan girl looking for a home (and a doll of course too!) are inevitably brought together in this charming and timeless Christmas tale for all ages.
What a beautiful story! It's a new-to-us favourite. I'm so glad we bought a hardcover version for our family.
Sweet enough to melt the heart of a curmudgeonly atheist. Much honor to Godden's magic way with words, and Barbara Cooney's pictures certainly helped the edition I read.
Another lovely piece of children's literature.It is a lovey story for the season of Christmas. No regrets that I have read it out of season. It is a small gem that can be brushed quickly every Christmas season.It is about an orphan girl who longs for a small toy to chase away the emptiness that occasionally wells up within her and searches for a family that will take her during the lovely season of Christmas. By now you would have guessed the story and the possible ending. There is no prize for
Read with my granddaughter - a sweet and happy Christmas story for all ages!
The story is fabulous and the art is lovely!
Holly and ivy is truly a wonderful book I loved reading it😀
This is an absolutely enchanting and extremely moving Christmas tale for children. It centres on a little orphan girl, called Ivy, who is shunted off on Christmas Eve to the Infants’ Home, as there is nobody to look after her. Stubbornly, Ivy declares she will go to her ‘grandmother’ but she has no grandmother and so Miss Shepherd puts her on the train. However, Ivy gets off and goes in hunt of the home that must belong to her.In the toyshop, a pretty doll called Holly is dressed for Christmas a...
I somehow started to miss my old doll... Maybe I could find a similar one.
The Story of Holly and Ivy, illustrated by Adrienne Adams.I have always loved Rumer Godden's The Story of Holly and Ivy, a delightful little Christmas tale in which a lonely doll named Holly, and a lonelier orphan named Ivy, find one another and a home, all thanks to the magic of the season. But as I was rereading it this Christmas Eve past, it suddenly occurred to me that this wasn't the story of two lonely souls, but of three. Which, if you've read the book, might seem obvious. How odd that, a...
A beautiful Christmas story about a doll who needs a person and an orphan who wants a doll.
