Dare Wright

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The sun was shining, summer was beginning, and a young girl named Brett was wishing. She stood alone on the end of a dock and wished for a friend to share the summer with her. That night, Brett's mother brought her a little doll she had found in an old trunk, but Brett was not very interested. She wanted a real, live friend. Then she heard a small voice ask, "You mean you don't want me? My name is Persis. You have to keep me. If I belong to you, I can be real, and we can be friends." That is exactly what happened, and the two of them had a summer of adventures climbing trees, rowing a boat down the creek, and going on bike rides together. They even caught a fish that was bigger than Persis. Brett's mother never discovered that Persis and Brett could talk with each other. Persis was just a doll to everyone except her own little girl who could make her real.

A tiny doll named Robin lived happily in the forest where the small wild creatures all loved her, and she loved every squirrel and rabbit and bird. Then one day a girl named Susan saw Robin lying among the leaves and took the tiny doll home with her. Susan wasn't a little girl who could hear dolls talk and never heard Robin shouting, "Put me down, put me down. I live in the woods. It's my home " Robin was quickly welcomed by Susan's other dolls and toy animals but missed her home in the woods and her wild animal friends quite terribly. Robin's woodland friend, Crow, searched and searched until he found where she had been taken. With Crow's clever help, Robin managed to escape living as a plaything and return to her beloved home in the woods.

This is the story of a little doll named Persis who was rescued from a deserted farmhouse by a kindly turtle. "You run along now and see the world," Turtle told her as he led her out of the dim old house into the light. As the sun warmed Persis, and the wind blew the last bit of dust off her, that is exactly what she set off to do. Nice Bear and Cross Bear were taking their afternoon walk when they discovered Persis napping under a May apple. When the little doll woke up, she asked if she could go home with the bears and off they went together. Nice Bear showed her the fun of the bright outdoors and fed her on honey and berries. Cross Bear, who was exceedingly grumpy, called Persis a little nuisance until an accident made him realize how much he cared for her, too.