![]() Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter-that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. While the family lived in crowded Detroit wartime housing, Harriette completed her novel Hunter’s Horn (Macmillan, 1949) and began her best known novel, The Dollmaker (Macmillan, 1954). But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. During World War II, Harold Arnow found work in Detroit, where his family moved to join him and where their son Thomas Louis Arnow was born in 1946. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Description: In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. ![]()
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