Amy's Eyes, Paperback/Richard Kennedy

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This new edition adds more than 100 illustrations to the book. Amy's eyes are blue as the ocean and bright as buttons. In fact, they are buttons, for Amy is a doll. Once she was a flesh-and-blood orphan child at St. Anne's Home for Girls. But her beloved sailor doll turned into a real little man and went off to seek his fortune, becoming Captain of the frigate Ariel. So Amy pined away and-behold She turning into a doll herself. "Why, this means that almost anything could happen " says the Captain upon his return. And almost anything does, as the two set out on the Ariel with a crew that includes rabbits, dogs, cats, monkeys, and other animals (who were all once dolls themselves) on a dangerous quest for gold treasure. About the Author: Richard Kennedy lives in the coastal town of Newport, Oregon. When he is in not being chased by pirates, he chases after Shakespeare, sharing the golden dream that the true writer of those plays and poems will one day be found out. He is the author of 15 children's books, including Come Again in the Spring, The Parrot and the Thief, The Porcelain Man, Inside My Feet, and The Boxcar at the Center of the Universe.