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    The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition
    The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition
    The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition
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    The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition

    By Frances Hodgson Burnett and Wendy Anderson Halperin

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    Acclaimed illustrator Wendy Anderson Halperin celebrates Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic, a tale of two dollhouses, just in time for its 100th anniversary. When Tidy Castle arrives, brand-new and grand in every way, the Racketty-Packetty House has never looked shabbier, and it is shoved in the corner of Cynthia's nursery. But the Racketty family still dances, sings, and laughs louder than all the fancy dolls combined. When a real-life princess visits the nursery, the Rackettys learn that the humans are planning to destroy their house. Only a miracle -- or some very unusual magic -- can save them now!

    Since its publication in 1906, the story of how Queen Crosspatch and her band of fairies rescued the Racketty-Packetty House has inspired dreamers and readers of all ages in the tradition of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. Now Wendy Anderson Halperin's illustrations, brimming with whimsy and wonder, unlock the magic of two dollhouses -- one posh and one proud -- to a whole new generation of readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9781442408470
    The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American author and playwright. She is best known for her incredibly popular novels for children, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

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    The Racketty-Packetty House - Frances Hodgson Burnett

    The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

    www.simonandSchuster.com

    Illustrations copyright © 2006 by Wendy Anderson Halperin

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Book design by Lucy Ruth Cummins

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    2 4 6 8 1 0 9 7 5 3 1

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

    Racketty-Packetty House / written by Frances Hodgson Burnett ; illustrated

    by Wendy Anderson Halperin

    p. cm.

    Originally published : New York: Century Co., 1906.

    Summary: The owner of a tumble-down dollhouse neglects its shabby occupants for a more aristocratic

    dollhouse and tenants, until a princess comes to visit and likes Racketty-Packetty House better.

    ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86974-7

    eISBN-13: 978-1-442-40847-0

    ISBN-10: 0-689-86974-6

    1. Dolls—Fiction. 2. Social classes—Fiction. 3. Fairies—Fiction.

    PZ7.B934Rac2006

    [Fie]—dc22 2005009075

    The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House

    By Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

    New York    London    Toronto    Sydney

    H.R.H. Queen Crosspatch

    101 Moonbeam Street

    Fairyland, 10021

    Now this is the story about the doll family I liked and the doll family I didn’t. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you don’t see them do, you are very much mistaken. When people are not looking at them they can do anything they choose. They can dance and sing and play on the piano and have all sorts of fun. But they can only move about and talk when people turn their backs and are not looking. If anyone looks, they just stop. Fairies know this and of course Fairies visit in all the dolls’ houses where the dolls are agreeable. They will not associate, though, with dolls who are not nice. They never call or leave their cards at a dolls’ house where the dolls are proud or bad-tempered. They are very particular. If you are conceited or ill-tempered yourself, you will never know a Fairy as long as you live.

    acketty-Packetty House was in a corner of Cynthia’s nursery. And it was not in the best corner either. It was in the corner behind the door, and that was not at all a fashionable neighborhood. Racketty-Packetty House had been pushed there to be out of the way when Tidy Castle had been brought in, on Cynthia’s birthday. As soon as she saw Tidy

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