I am looking for a children’s book that I read when I was in grade 3 in 1955 in Toronto. C. 1953? American? It was a small short picture book/easy reader chapters 5.5″x5.5″, black and white illustrations and hardcover.
In the attic, in a trunk there is a doll (old) who wishes that a little girl will find her and play with her. Emily? is playing one day and wanders up to the attic of her house and discovers a small trunk. I can still feel the hope and excitement of the doll (Henrietta?). Emily opens the trunk to reveal a beautiful doll with a complete wardrobe of clothes and a parasol.
Thank you so much for searching for this book for me.
p.s. I named my daughter Emily after the little girl in this book!
Henriette, the Story of a Doll?
The Orphan and the Doll by Tracy Friedman
Solved on another board: Irene Turnbow, Through The Years With Henrietta. Publisher: Chicago: Follett Publishing, 1966. Henrietta, a china doll, was given to five-year-old Emily for Christmas in 1879. She and her companion doll, Billy Boy, watched Emily grow up and increase her many interests and responsibilities.