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Marcella: A Raggedy Ann Story - Hardcover

Gruelle, Johnny

 
9780689828782: Marcella: A Raggedy Ann Story
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0689828780 ISBN 13: 9780689828782
Verlag: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Raggedy Ann, Beloved Belindy, Uncle Clem and Raggedy Andy sat very, very quiet, their cotton-stuffed bodies tingling as happily as Johnny Cricket's cheery tune, for they had looked through the door into Fairyland.
It's summertime, and Marcella packs up her beloved dolls, Raggedy Ann and Andy and all their friends, for a trip to the seashore. Nighttime is when the dolls come to life, so once Marcella is tucked in bed, Raggedy Ann and the rest of the dolls embark on a series of adventures, including a magical encounter with fairies. They also make friends with a new doll named Squeakie, and a mischievous puppy, Rags, and get lost at sea on a sailboat. Raggedy Ann leads her friends through each exciting adventure with a dose of humor and kindness. In the end it is the dolls' love for one another -- and Marcella's devotion to her dear friends -- that is the true magic in this book.
This very special story collection, a tribute to Johnny Gruelle's daughter, Marcella, has been lovingly restored to delight a new generation of readers. Whimsical illustrations capture the joy and simplicity of Raggedy Ann's world, transporting you to a magical place you will want to visit again and again.

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Johnny Gruelle was an extremely talented cartoonist, illustrator, and storyteller. He had already written and illustrated a book of original fairy tales before creating the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories. Raggedy Ann, heroine of the first book, was a favorite doll of his daughter, Marcella, who died after a long illness at the age of thirteen. Johnny Gruelle eventually created over forty Raggedy Ann and Andy books, all capturing his unique version of childhood.

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The Picnic

"Do you know what?" Raggedy Ann asked as she smoothed out the wrinkles in her pretty white apron and stood before the other dolls in the nursery.

"Oh! Tell us, Raggedy Ann!" Beloved Belindy cried as she snuggled the two little china penny dolls in her lap. "Is it a nice secret?"

"Oh, no, Beloved Belindy!" Raggedy Ann replied as she wiggled a shoe-button eye at Uncle Clem, the Scotch doll. "It is not a secret to be kept. 'Cause why? If it was really and truly a secret, then I would not tell!"

"'Course not, Raggedy Ann!" Raggedy Andy said. "We know it is wrong to tell a secret, but do tell us what surprise you have!"

All the dollies gathered close to dear old Raggedy Ann and could hardly be still, they were so anxious to hear what Raggedy Ann had to tell.

There was Beloved Belindy, a nice soft cuddly doll with lovely shiny pearl-button eyes and a wide smiling mouth. There was Raggedy Andy, of course, with his cheery grin painted on and his soft loppy legs.

There were Frederika and Henny, both Dutch dolls, who, while very new, when they were tilted forward and back would cry, "Mama" in clear sweet voices. Frederika's "voice" had been broken, so that she could not say "Mama." She just made a tiny, quavery squeak when she was tipped. But Henny's voice was still as good as new.

There was Uncle Clem, with a nice brown yarn mustache; Cleety, the clown, made of wood with rubber joints in his arms and legs; Susan, the doll without a head; the French doll, a lovely creature with yellow curls; Rosa and Sarah, two pretty dolls with china heads.

Then, there was the Little Brown Bear, Sunny Bunny, Eddie Elephant, Johnny Mouse and all the other animals from the toy box in the corner.

"Hurry! Hurry, Raggedy Ann!" they all cried as they crowded around. "Tell us what it is!"

"We are all going on a picnic!" Raggedy Ann said. "A real-for-sure picnic! When I was down in the kitchen this evening with Marcella, her mama was making the nicest cookies and getting everything ready for an early start tomorrow morning. And," continued Raggedy Ann as she held up her rag hand for all the dollies to remain quiet, "Marcella asked her mama if she could take all of us with her!"

"All of us?" Henny, the Dutch doll, asked. "Even Eddie Elephant and the Little Brown Bear and everyone?"

"Of course, Henny," Raggedy Ann replied with a soft chuckle 'way down in her cotton-stuffed body, "of course!"

"I don't see why she should wish to take them!" Henny growled, meaning Eddie Elephant and Sunny Bunny and the other Raggedy Animals.

"Why, Henny!" Frederika said. "I'm s'prised at you! The Raggedy Animals enjoy going with Marcella just as much as any of us do!"

"But they are not dolls!" Henny said. "They are just animals -- almost like the wooden horses and the moo-cow and the tin things in the toy box."

All this time, Eddie Elephant and Sunny Bunny and the Little Brown Bear and Johnny Mouse had remained silent, but when Henny said this, Eddie Elephant said, "I 'spect Henny is right. We are just Raggedy Animals and not as nice as you dolls, so we had better stay at home with the toys in the toy box!"

Raggedy Ann took her little pocket hanky and wiped Eddie Elephant's shoe-button eyes and, as she looked around at the Little Brown Bear and Sunny Bunny and Johnny Mouse, standing so quietly and not saying a word in reply to Henny's rudeness, she almost had to stamp her rag foot.

"No sir!" Raggedy Ann cried. "Marcella will wish to take everyone and besides, Mister Henny, the Raggedy Animals are just as good as any of us dolls. We are all made of cloth and stuffed, either with sawdust or cotton, and if some of us have animal heads, that makes no difference."

"Santa Claus made most of us and we all can enjoy pleasures the same as any real-for-sure live person. It is not nice for you to wish to go and not care to have these dear Raggedy Animals go and share all our pleasures."

Then turning to Uncle Clem, Raggedy Ann asked, "Don't you think so, Uncle Clem?"

"Indeed, I do think the Raggedy Animals should go! And, I should be very much ashamed of myself if I were Henny," Uncle Clem replied.

Henny jumped to his feet so suddenly it made his quavery, squeaky voice cry, "Mama," and he walked away from all the dolls.

Not a word was said until Henny, shuffling his feet, went over and sat down behind the toy box in the corner.

Then Uncle Clem said, "I do not know why Henny is so rude."

"Henny is selfish!" Raggedy Andy said. "I could hardly keep from giving him a thump with my rag hand."

Just then there were heavy steps on the stairway, so all the dolls who were standing up sat down and, of course, every one of them was very, very quiet.

The footsteps were Daddy's, and he came right into the nursery, gathered all the dolls into a bundle and carried them downstairs.

Daddy was getting everything ready for the picnic in the morning, so he carried all the dolls out to the garage and piled them on the rear seat of the car. "Now," he said, with a chuckle, "you dolls are all ready to start in the morning, so you had better get a good night's sleep!"

Then with a laugh to himself, Daddy closed the car door and the dolls could hear his steps as he returned to the house.

"Well!" Uncle Clem laughed in his sawdusty way. "Here we all are, ready to start on the picnic tomorrow. Now we must all try to be ever and ever so nice when Marcella takes us places, because that makes it so much easier for her to take care of us!"

"We always try to be nice, Uncle Clem," Frederika laughed. "You know we just pretend that we cannot walk, or talk, or do anything."

"I know it!" Uncle Clem laughed again in reply. "But sometimes, you know, Henny forgets that grown people do not know that dolls can walk and talk and do everything and he wiggles and falls off his chair!"

"Right in front of everybody!" Raggedy Andy added.

"I do hope Henny behaves himself tomorrow," Raggedy Ann said.

"I guess he will," Raggedy Andy laughed. "'Cause why? 'Cause he was left behind, up in the nursery, pouting behind the toy box."

"It serves him right, too!" the French doll said. "When one is selfish, one always loses a lot of nice things."

Now Sunny Bunny and the Little Brown Bear and Eddie Elephant and Johnny Mouse were very quiet. They were sitting on the back seat thinking just as hard as a cotton-stuffed animal can think, and they were all sorry that Henny had been rude to them. "For," thought Eddie Elephant, who was really a very kind little creature, "if Henny had not grown peevish at us, he would not have hidden behind the toy box, and if he had not been in hiding, Daddy would have picked him up with the rest of the dolls!"

And Sunny Bunny and the Little Brown Bear and Johnny Mouse were thinking just about the same thing, so, when all the other dolls had settled down for the night, Eddie Elephant nudged Sunny Bunny and Sunny Bunny nudged the Little Brown Bear and the Little Brown Bear nudged Johnny Mouse. Then, very cautiously, they opened the door of the car, climbed to the windowsill and jumped to the ground.

As they ran across the yard, the puppydog saw them and started to bark, thinking at first it must be lots of cats.

But when they came up close, he saw that it was his old friends the Raggedy Animals. "You had better stay in the car where Daddy put you," Hairy Puppydog said. "We are starting on the picnic early in the morning and if any of you are missing from the car, we shall surely leave without you!"

"That is just why we are not in the car, Hairy," Eddie Elephant said. "When Daddy carried us out to the car, he forgot to bring Henny, so we are going to bring Henny ourselves!"

"How can you ever climb up to the nursery window, though? Just...

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0689828780
ISBN 13 
9780689828782
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Zeichner
Gruelle Johnny
Anzahl der Seiten
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