The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

George, Kallie

The Doll Hospital

32 pp. | Atheneum | June, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5344-0121-1 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5344-0122-8

(3) PS Illustrated by Sara Gillingham. At the Doll Hospital (a dollhouse), Dr. Pegs has a growing list of priorities, including setting a porcelain doll's cracked arm and providing new stomach stuffing for plush doll Scoop. Luckily, help arrives from the "Nesting Nurses," five nesting dolls who pitch in to mend the dolls in need. This charmingly old-fashioned story has appropriately retro illustrations featuring patterned stripes, dots, and shapes in an almost neon palette.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty