The Paper Dolls

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Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary The Paper Dolls explores fictional objects, memory, and artistic creation by following a little girl and her paper dolls. Concerning the boy: I think the moral of the story is that sometimes bad people hurt us, but we have the power to control our own emotions and turn them into something positive. Creativity can often help a child to develop their problem-solving skills and adapt to new ways of thinking. The next set of questions concerns memory. After the boy snips the paper dolls and the dolls regather themselves in the little girl’s memory, they apparently encounter other items in the little girl’s memory. They find “white mice and fireworks, and a starfish soap, and a kind granny, and the butterfly hairslide, and more and more lovely things each day and each year.” Students are asked about the nature of memory. What is memory and where is it? Why does it exist? Why does it seem to hold some things that are imaginary (like the white mice) and some things that were once real (like the kind granny and the butterfly hairslide)? Happy Pawlidays Book folding Pattern | Dog with Santa hat Folded book art Pattern | Puppy ornaments | Dog Christmas craft | Book lover gift

After the little boy snipped the paper dolls into little pieces he said, “You’re gone forever.” Is he right?DIY Cut and Paste Printable Paper Craft Activities for Kids, Arts and Crafts for kids, Scissor Skills Paper Toys Printable Sheets for Kids The thing that really spoilt this otherwise quite lovely story for me was the scene where a boy cuts the dolls up, he is smiling and knows what he is doing and apart from the fact this is such a sad and mean thing to happen to these little paper dolls with names the boy faces no consequences for his actions, his behaviour is not even mentioned. If I had read this to my daughter when she was younger not only would she have felt very sad for the poor dolls she would have wanted to know why the story didn't atleast have the boy looking and saying sorry. Although some might say it is realistic that mean and sad things happen and you don't always get an apology I think books aimed at young children have a responsibility to encourage positive behaviour and the boy in this story just gets away with it and the girl just has to accept the destruction of something precious to her and neither of those things are fair or positive in my opinion. Finally, the last set of discussions touches the subject of artistic creation. The paper dolls were designed by the little girl with some help from her mother. (Later in the book, when the little girl is an adult, she too helps her daughter create paper dolls.)

Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf Scented Candle | Poetry Gift | Aromatherapy Candle | 9 Ounces | Literary Candle | Classic BookBeautifully illustrated and full of imagination. The book was stamped with Shortlisted for the Ciup Kate Greenaway Medal. Julia Donaldson books has never been a let down to me. The book is ok to me - did not impress not bore me. I love the illustrations - I think it's lovely and the paper dolls were drawn exactly to the rhyme/repetition lines, found in the book. I would think it makes for a great read aloud book with your child(ren) as the rhymes are quite apt and beautiful. People create items all the time: pieces of art, crafts, useful and useless objects, fun objects, etc. What is the relationship between the creator and the creation? Questions for Philosophical Discussion Existence of fictional objects and characters/Imagination