Big Susan

Elizabeth Orton Jones. Purple House Press, $19.95 (82pp) ISBN 978-1-930900-06-6

Reissues also deck the hall. Susan Orton Jones's Big Susan celebrates its 55th anniversary. Illustrations in muted tones are interspersed throughout the story, about a doll family that comes to life on Christmas Eve-after weeks of neglect by their eponymous owner.

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