Looking for a children’s book about a boy who snuck and took a nesting doll. While he was sitting on the curb he dropped the smallest nesting doll in the storm drain. I believe he took the doll in a lunchbox? Maybe tried to go to show and tell? He had to tell his mom he lost the doll. My mom read it to me in the 80’s when I was little.
It is NOT the Littlest Matroskya Doll book. That is the most common answer I get when I ask.
are you perhaps thinking of Impunity Jane; The Story of a Pocket Doll by Rumor Godden? Giddeon takes a small doll from the nursery dollhouse, while visiting a cousin and keeps it in his pocket. They have adventures as he grows up