The Littlest Matryoshka
Follow one brave doll’s journey home after she’s separated from her nesting doll sisters, in this cozy, classic story beloved for over 25 years.
 
In a small shop in a snowy village in Russia, Nikolai the doll maker was carving his last matryoshka. From one piece of soft wood he shaped six nesting dolls, each one fitting inside the other. They all opened in the middle and were hollow inside, except for the littlest. She was the size of a bumblebee and she was made of the heart of the sweet-smelling wood.
 
When the littlest matryoshka falls from the toy shop shelf, she worries she’ll never see her sisters again. A little girl buys the remaining dolls at half price and takes them home. But the smallest doll won’t give up, so she sets off on a perilous journey. She's carried off in a truck, swept along a stream, and caught in a waterfall. Will she find her way home?
 
An Author's Note at the end of the book shares the history of Russian nesting dolls.
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The Littlest Matryoshka
Follow one brave doll’s journey home after she’s separated from her nesting doll sisters, in this cozy, classic story beloved for over 25 years.
 
In a small shop in a snowy village in Russia, Nikolai the doll maker was carving his last matryoshka. From one piece of soft wood he shaped six nesting dolls, each one fitting inside the other. They all opened in the middle and were hollow inside, except for the littlest. She was the size of a bumblebee and she was made of the heart of the sweet-smelling wood.
 
When the littlest matryoshka falls from the toy shop shelf, she worries she’ll never see her sisters again. A little girl buys the remaining dolls at half price and takes them home. But the smallest doll won’t give up, so she sets off on a perilous journey. She's carried off in a truck, swept along a stream, and caught in a waterfall. Will she find her way home?
 
An Author's Note at the end of the book shares the history of Russian nesting dolls.
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The Littlest Matryoshka

The Littlest Matryoshka

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The Littlest Matryoshka

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Follow one brave doll’s journey home after she’s separated from her nesting doll sisters, in this cozy, classic story beloved for over 25 years.
 
In a small shop in a snowy village in Russia, Nikolai the doll maker was carving his last matryoshka. From one piece of soft wood he shaped six nesting dolls, each one fitting inside the other. They all opened in the middle and were hollow inside, except for the littlest. She was the size of a bumblebee and she was made of the heart of the sweet-smelling wood.
 
When the littlest matryoshka falls from the toy shop shelf, she worries she’ll never see her sisters again. A little girl buys the remaining dolls at half price and takes them home. But the smallest doll won’t give up, so she sets off on a perilous journey. She's carried off in a truck, swept along a stream, and caught in a waterfall. Will she find her way home?
 
An Author's Note at the end of the book shares the history of Russian nesting dolls.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786801534
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date: 09/01/1999
Edition description: 1st ed
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 381,271
Product dimensions: 9.45(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of 38 books including the picture book Saying Goodbye to Lulu, as well as two collections of short stories, six novels, a memoir, a collection of poetry, two plays, and numerous books for children. She is a professor emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review, and invites you to visit her online at corinnedemas.com.

Born in southern Idaho, Kathryn Brown grew up along the Snake River Canyon with her brother and three sisters. Together they took care of the animals in their family’s corral—horses, burros, sheep, pigs, two pure white mules, and a dog named Coke. It was from this corral that she began drawing long eared critters adorned with fine apparel —the inspiration for Muledred, her first picture book. Kathryn lives near the Connecticut River in Massachusetts and invites you to visit her online at kathrynbrownart.com.
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