The Countess's Calamity
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Author | Sally Gardner |
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Illustrator | Sally Gardner |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Publication date | 7 April 2003 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 96 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-7475-5940-5 |
OCLC | 59364102 |
The Countess's Calamity is a 2003 children's book written and illustrated by Sally Gardner.[1] It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.[2] It is the first of the Tales from the Box series about sentient toys.
Plot summary
After a box of toys is abandoned at a park, the intervention of some friendly mice helps the toys go on with their lives. One of the dolls, the Countess, has trouble adapting.
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