Book is pink and narrow with blue bubbleletters on cover. Has 4 stories I recall, One is about the bremen musicians, the next one is about a magician that gets shrunk by his own mice, the third one about a butterfly girl that gets adopted by flies living in lamppost. last is about possums in woods S716: Sally, forgotten doll, great-aunt Looking for a children’s book I read mid ’70′s grade 4-5 about a girl named Sally who was sent to live with her great aunt. She was trying to solve a mystery of a lost doll belonging to another girl named Sally. It turned out that the doll belonged to her great aunt Sarah, called Sally as a child. Sally had been given a set of books that she took to her aunts. During a rainstorm/flooding, she read to a group of schoolchildren to keep them sitios legГ­timos de citas ucranianas calm. (I’m pretty sure that was part of this same book.) She was able to find the doll when she noticed that her cat had been playing in a corner of the attic and had a piece of doll hair stuck in its claws.

Norma Kassirer, Secret Elizabeth

The reading-aloud-in-storm scence is not in this book, but the rest of the details match. Read More >