Miss Happiness and Miss Flower [antikvár]

Pufiin Books Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Miss Happiness and Miss Flower were two dainty little Japanese dolls who came to live in the same house in England as Belinda and Nona. It was lonely for the dolls being so far from home, and Nona was lonely too because she was far away from her home in India; but it turnéd out that she was exactly the clever and kind little companion the dolls had been looking for. Nona had so much to do to keep the dolls happy that she had no time to feel sad. They needed a proper little Japanese house to make them feel at home, and Nona had to find out how it should be built from a book, There was a whole Japanese garden to make, and they needed quilts instead of beds, silk cushions for chairs, and bowls instead of teacups. As she did all this for Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Nona grew happier and made somé new friends, and once her cousin Belinda began to like her too, nothing was wrong anymore. Rumer Godden was born in 1907 in Sussex and spent the early years of her childhood in India. When she was twelve, she and her three sisters were sent to school in England, but later she returned to India - and has been backward and forward ever since, homesick for one or the other. She has established a reputation as one of the leading writers for children.