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K-Gr 3 A remarkable picture book that effectively uses 1930s Communist Russia as a backdrop for a deceptively simple story. More than anything, Kim wants a doll, but her parents, ."..like many parents in Russia those days, believed that little girls who played with dolls would never learn to be brave and strong." So Kim creates a doll out of an ordinary soup spoon. Upset that the child won't give it up, her parents tempt her with a toy rifle "like the ones the soldiers carried." After watching Kim rocking her rifle to sleep, he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More