| This small book (only 6
pages, paper-bound) features the nursery-rhyme character
Mary Mary quite contrary
This Mary is not contrary, however, but kind to an old woman, who gives her the gift of making anything grow in her garden she wishes for. And of course it is dolls! We see a baby doll, a couple of boy dolls, and one who seems to be in costume, but the only doll not representing a child of European coloring is the Japanese doll. |
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| Here Mary gives the flower-dolls to all the little girls without dolls. | ![]() |