The Runaway Dolls

Title: The Runaway Dolls
Author: Ann M. Martin
Series: The Doll People (Book 3)
Genre: Juvenile Fiction


The Runaway Dolls is the third book in the Doll People Trilogy. Again we find Annabelle and Tiffany on a crazy adventure, but this time Bailey and Bobby (their younger brothers join them).

The morning before the Palmer family leaves for a two week vacation, a package arrives from London. They are confused, but don't open it and instead leave for their vacation. Annabelle and Tiffany inspect the box and hear a small voice from inside - it's a doll!

The girls want to let the three year old little girl doll, Tilly, out but the Doll parents say no. The girls decide to let her out anyway, and they learn that Tilly is The Doll Family's long lost baby doll that should have come with the set. Annabelle can't bear to think of leaving Tilly in the box for two weeks, and is afraid the Palmers won't open the box and her sister will be sent away. Her brilliant plan is to run away. Annabelle, Tiffany and Tilly do indeed run away, leaving the house through the cat door, and go on an amazing doll adventure.

I felt like this story was an excellent addition to the other two. It was a quick read and I had finished in under a hour. I feel as if this may even be the best book of the three of them. The dolls spend time Downtown, in the park, and in a Doll Department of a Department store. There is lots of adventure and comparison of things from a doll's point of view.