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Raggedy Ann and Andy
Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land
Originally published in 1931, this classic tale tells of Raggedy-Ann and Andy's amusing adventure in a delicious land made of cookies and colorful treats.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1931
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Johnny Gruelle
323 books42 followersJohnny Gruelle was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book author and illustrator (and even songwriter). He is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He had such confidence in his design that often he would create the final ink work without first sketching in pencil.
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September 4, 2014
I read this as a kid. My 7 year old boy now loves it. I've had to read it three times already. It's the only book that we repeatedly read. I love Raggedy Ann's generous and kind heart. All the characters are clever and unique. Cookie Land is a place of timeless fantasy for kids. Will never go out of style.
December 29, 2023
Raggedy Anne in Cookie Land
The Raggedy’s find themselves falling. Finally the find themselves at the bottom of a cavern made of ice. They followed a bunny rabbit and seemingly took a worng turn. Andy enourages her to take taste the icles. They taste like soda (vanilla, strawberry, lemon, and chocolate). Since it looks like they’ll be there a while they sit down and enjoy the icycles.
They hear someone on skates and he introduces himself as Weeky. He says they did the wrong thing and points out they ate so many incles they’re now stuck to the floor. Weeke says he’ll go get a tea keetle with hot water and throw them out. After he leaves they’re approached again by someone who tells them to leave his ice grotto. They tell him they can’t and he then says he’ll then he’ll make noodle soup of them and runs off.
Weekie comes back and Ragggedy Anne tells him their dilemma so he hurriedly sets them free. Hookah comes back with his ice pick. There’s a hall that they all run through but the goblin has closed the other side. Weekie whose on stakes uses the Raggedy’s to crash through the door and they escape down the hall (leaving the angry goblin behind ue;;omg tjreats_/ Weeloe meeds a nreal. Nit tjeu sppm jear the gpn;om cp,omg after tjem agaom/ Sp. Weeloe tales pff jos slates/ He can’t carry them so they take off running. The goblin now has on skates and is gaining on them. Andy and Wekie become seperated for a minute and Anne is snatched by the Goblin. They make it to the Gobins house and Andy and Weekie sit on his steps.
Eventually a odd woman w walks with a basket with candle sticks. Weekie takes two. Now they can melt the ice by the door and rush in and get Raggedy Anne out. Raggedy Andy and Weekie rush in and push the Goblin into the hot water.Because they stop for another rest and they and Weekie eat some of the ice cycles. they’re captured by the Goblin. They trick him into eating the rest of the strawberry flavored icycles. He asks them to bring him some tho. He eats 49 of them and then his frozen clothes are then stuck to the ice floor. They all walk away and leave him sitting on the floor.
They come to a round door and go inside. It turns out to be a big bakery. They find all kinds of donoughts, cakes, and cookies waiting to be baked. They all agree to bake some cookies. The goblin bursts into the room. He’s gotten lose by letting his tears melt the ice. He then says when they’re ready they’ll head to his house, but Raggedy Anne says they’re waiting for the cookies. But he again finds himself stuck to the floor by some candy. They again leave him throwing making a fuss.
They then come upon a strange man that’s brown that swings his body from side to side. He sees it’s his place and he never have visitors. He sees he’s going to put them through the great roller. He grabs Raggedy Anne but Weekie gives the man a push and he snaps in two and falls to the floor. He’s a cookie man made from chocolate dough. Weekie thinks they should break him into pieces and put them in their pockets. Raggedy Anne tho says that wouldn’t be right. They should paste him together with molasses and place the candy on his suit. So, this is what they do.But he doesn’t come to life. So they get him to his feet and this does the trick He thanks them and chanes his mind about putting them through the roling machine. He wants to take them home to meet his wife and two children.
On the way home, he tells them he can love them because he has a raisin heart. His house is made of candy. He introduces them to “Lemon Cookie” (whose fallen out of a tree and broken his leg), and Mrs. Cookie. Raggedy Anne vows to fix the boys leg. She make that looks like a chicken stuffed with nuts and chocolate icing that looks like gravy.
After dinner Raggedy Anne offers to make “Little Lemon” a leg, but they don’t have an lemon flavoring. They decide to use vanilla instead. She also makes “Little Strawberry” a kitten out of the exra dough. After this they’re shown the garden. They want her to make some animals. Mr. Cookie takes them to the “Soda Water Stream” (Andy and Weekie). While wondering about eating the fish, they notice Hookie has come back and is right behind them. Hookie grabs Weekie, but he escapes. The Cookie Man hits him with his arm and he falls into the stream. They all run back home.
They make it inside, but the Goblin is now knocking at the door. They try to ignore him, but he won’t go away. The Cookie Man’s arm has fallen off. The Goblin says he’s going to break his other leg, and arms, and head. Raggedy Anne tho fixes him up. The Goblin is pitching a fit and says he’ll sit there until they get hungry and come out. Mrs. Cookie then prepares another chicken and they leave him there until he gets stuck. Then they’ll tie him up and carry him home. Eventually he falls asleep. The Cookie Dog starts to bark and this scares the Goblin. He tries to get up but he’s stuck. The doorstep gets stuck to him and he runs away. The dog chases after him and he loses his tail and Raggedy Anne has fix it. Andy volunteers to stay behind while Raggedy Anne goes with them to see some of Candy Land. But he accidently burns the chicken and Hookie returns. Not all are bunt. He’s able to save the cows and pigs. The chickens and ducks they have to throw out. They all land on Hookie’s nose.
Hookie starts up with his threats again, but the cow scots him across the yard and then tosses him into the fields. He tells them he’ll be back. They agree to forget about him. S o, they go into the house to make more chickens and ducks. Mrs. Cookie puts out sundaes. The children stay outside and Hookie again comes back and funs off with them. Mrs. And Mr. Cookie ends up getting broken in half somehow. Andy, and Annie go after the goblin and they sneak up on him when he sits down to rest. Andy picks up Strawberry and runs toward home. Anne fixes up the Cookie lady and man,
Mrs. Cookie gives Andy and Weekie cookie medals. They don’t want them but Weekie figures if they get hungry they can eat them. The Goblin then shows up again and brings a Snitznoodle. They try to capture them but the Snitznoodle sees the bravey medal and he gets scared and won’t take them. The Goblin gets annoyed and thumps him. He thumps him back and tells him never to do it again. He goes back with Weekie and Andy. Mrs. Cookie thinks the Snitznoodle will eat her children but he assures them he won’t. He says he just eats wind sandwiches. The Goblin shows up again, but the Snitznoodle gives him some hard thumps and he leaves. He then shows them how to make wind sandwiches. No one thinks much of them. Mrs. Cookie gives him an ice cream cone and he likes it better.
They all like the Snitznoodle. He gets another ice cream cone and a chicken. He says that he’ll stay there with them and they agree because he’s brave and can prtect them. So he goes home to get his nightie. The Goblin comes back and has taken the Snitznoodle’s nightie. So now he won’t come back. He says if they don’t let him in he’ll nibble the front door. He starts to nibble a hole wide enough to stick his head through. Raggedy Andy and Little Weekie grab his ears. They grab a pancake paddle and paddle his backside. On the way home, he runs into the Snitznoodle who gives him a few hard thumps. He’s happy to se his nightie is there. He was thinking he couldn’t live with them because he couldn’t find it. One night while Snitznoodle is out in the yard cleaning the dishes (weating the dishes) and Mr. Cookie is in the garden, Hookie comes back and tries to capture Mr. Cookie, After a rest, he sees a dark cloud forming and resumes his walk home, But then he trips and it turns out that the snow is powdered sugar snow They all notice Mr. Cookie is gone. The Cow tells them that he got carried away by the Goblin. They find his tracks and notice he’s stopped to rest off and on. The Snitznoodle sees the Cookie Man walking home with his legs sticking out. The top is tied. So, they cut him out and they head toward home. He left him sitting on the ground tired and snowed under.
The Snitznoodle chases the Goblin to a house where he locks the door. The Goblin thinks if he just waits him out the Snitznoodle will get hungry and go back to his house. But what the Goblin doesn’t know is the Snitznoodle has been used to eating wind sandwiches. After a while he doesn’t return home and the Cookie People and the Raggedy’s go to sleep. The Sntiznoodle falls alsep outside and the Goblin tires a rope around him.When he wakes up he’s tired to a chair. Raggedy Anne and Andy go to look for him the next day and the dog tracks him to the odd house. The Goblin tells them he’s going to turn him into sausage. Weekie says they can make a cookie balloon, and he can jump from the balloon, unto the roof, jump down the chimney and rescue the Snitznoodle. So, they make one out of a cream puff.
Bit the Gpn;om stocls jos jead pit the womdpw/ Weeloe dpes a VERY DUMB THING and tells him what the plan is. But the Goblin tells him jokes on him. The house doesn’t have a chimney and now he can’t get down. Raggedy Anne takes the story of Snow White as inspiration in a plan to disguise herself and go to the door and sell something. So she disguises herself as a witch with a basket of cream and jelly treat puffs, jelly tarts, and cookie with icing. He’s not fooled. Now he has Raggedy Anne. He know it was her by her button eyes. They decide to take a sausage grinder to the Goblins door. He’ll open the door and then they’ll burst in. She doesn’t have a grinder but she has a food chopper. This does the trick, he grabs the chooper, Andy rushes in and saves the others. The Snitz climbs the water sprout and saves Weekie.
After dinner they hear loud thumps and the house starts to fall apart. He says his name is the Hungry Howloon and the Goblin gave him permission to eat the Cookie People. They send him back to the Goblin to ask him for something to eat, It’s not long before he retuns. After a while he breaks the door right off it’s hinges. He deamnds to know which ones are good to eat. He snatches up Andy. He knows it won’t hurt him, but Mrs. Cookie steps in. He then grabs her. Raggedy Andy and the Howleen decide to go at it and they start to wresle. The Howleen strikes the end of the fireplace and they discover he’s made of rubber. He goes down. He doesn’t even have a mouth. They decide to fix him up and stuff him with cake chickens, cream puffs, chickens and lollipops. They put it in his side and pump him with air. He’s no longer hungry and Mrs. Cookie lets him live there too.
The Howleen goes out for a while and gets captured by the Goblin. Raggedy Anne and the Snitznoodle find a magic beanstalk and try to climb up to get the Howleen, but the Goblin sees this and wachiacks it down. Dandy goes to get him and doesn’t come back so Raggedy Anne and the Snitznoodle go to check it out. He doesn’t come out at first but then he yells out for them to go away. They find out he’s captured the Howleen, the Snitznoodle, and Raggedy Andy, He’s now taken the Howleen, taken all the food out, and now he’s flat again. So Raggedy Anne and Mr. Cookie stuff him up again with cookies and pump him up again. There’s a small hole under the house so they puncture the Howleen, then put him back up. It makes the Goblin’s house lean sideways. Then they all pull the house over. The house falls on them tho. Hookie is delighted! But the Howleen didn’t get the house fallen on him. Now he’s twice as large as he was. The Goblin sees this and runs off. He finds a iron bar sets the house straight and rescues the others. When they get homme, the door is locked and the Goblin is inside. The Howleen goes to the Goblins house to get a iron bar but they have to go after him. He’s gotten locked in the Goblins house. When they get back, no one there, but the Gob tells them he’s changed his mind about being mean. It served him right to have this house turned over. So, he decided to do something nice. So, when they left he’s set the table and prepared a nice dinner for them. Now he says everything is ready and they can have their dinner. Then they all sit down to eat. So, the Goblin now gives him the title of “house girl” and he’s invited to stay at the Cookie House.
Raggedy Anne and Andy stay at the house a few days and then Raggedy Anne says they must return to the nursery. So, they leave a note and tip toe out. They think about taking some of the incycle but decide against it. They agree they had a nice adventure.
Ratomg 8 This was charming! I had another version of this book when I was younger. It was a Scratch and Sniff book. It had the same characters only Mr and Mrs. Cookie’s daughter was named “Little Raisin”. I was delighted to find that this was an alternate version and longer. I adored this land full of chocolate chickens, and cream puffs, and soada water streams, and flavored icycles. I could also smell the scents just like in the book I had! So fun! As many books as I’ve read this year this was another one I enjoyed even more highly then some of the other more “serious” biographies and YA books I’ve read because it was colorful. Lol Just don’t read it if your hungry! Your hungry and don’t have anything sweet to snack on. You might just find yourself making a run to the store for chocolate chip cookies or cinnamon rolls!
The Raggedy’s find themselves falling. Finally the find themselves at the bottom of a cavern made of ice. They followed a bunny rabbit and seemingly took a worng turn. Andy enourages her to take taste the icles. They taste like soda (vanilla, strawberry, lemon, and chocolate). Since it looks like they’ll be there a while they sit down and enjoy the icycles.
They hear someone on skates and he introduces himself as Weeky. He says they did the wrong thing and points out they ate so many incles they’re now stuck to the floor. Weeke says he’ll go get a tea keetle with hot water and throw them out. After he leaves they’re approached again by someone who tells them to leave his ice grotto. They tell him they can’t and he then says he’ll then he’ll make noodle soup of them and runs off.
Weekie comes back and Ragggedy Anne tells him their dilemma so he hurriedly sets them free. Hookah comes back with his ice pick. There’s a hall that they all run through but the goblin has closed the other side. Weekie whose on stakes uses the Raggedy’s to crash through the door and they escape down the hall (leaving the angry goblin behind ue;;omg tjreats_/ Weeloe meeds a nreal. Nit tjeu sppm jear the gpn;om cp,omg after tjem agaom/ Sp. Weeloe tales pff jos slates/ He can’t carry them so they take off running. The goblin now has on skates and is gaining on them. Andy and Wekie become seperated for a minute and Anne is snatched by the Goblin. They make it to the Gobins house and Andy and Weekie sit on his steps.
Eventually a odd woman w walks with a basket with candle sticks. Weekie takes two. Now they can melt the ice by the door and rush in and get Raggedy Anne out. Raggedy Andy and Weekie rush in and push the Goblin into the hot water.Because they stop for another rest and they and Weekie eat some of the ice cycles. they’re captured by the Goblin. They trick him into eating the rest of the strawberry flavored icycles. He asks them to bring him some tho. He eats 49 of them and then his frozen clothes are then stuck to the ice floor. They all walk away and leave him sitting on the floor.
They come to a round door and go inside. It turns out to be a big bakery. They find all kinds of donoughts, cakes, and cookies waiting to be baked. They all agree to bake some cookies. The goblin bursts into the room. He’s gotten lose by letting his tears melt the ice. He then says when they’re ready they’ll head to his house, but Raggedy Anne says they’re waiting for the cookies. But he again finds himself stuck to the floor by some candy. They again leave him throwing making a fuss.
They then come upon a strange man that’s brown that swings his body from side to side. He sees it’s his place and he never have visitors. He sees he’s going to put them through the great roller. He grabs Raggedy Anne but Weekie gives the man a push and he snaps in two and falls to the floor. He’s a cookie man made from chocolate dough. Weekie thinks they should break him into pieces and put them in their pockets. Raggedy Anne tho says that wouldn’t be right. They should paste him together with molasses and place the candy on his suit. So, this is what they do.But he doesn’t come to life. So they get him to his feet and this does the trick He thanks them and chanes his mind about putting them through the roling machine. He wants to take them home to meet his wife and two children.
On the way home, he tells them he can love them because he has a raisin heart. His house is made of candy. He introduces them to “Lemon Cookie” (whose fallen out of a tree and broken his leg), and Mrs. Cookie. Raggedy Anne vows to fix the boys leg. She make that looks like a chicken stuffed with nuts and chocolate icing that looks like gravy.
After dinner Raggedy Anne offers to make “Little Lemon” a leg, but they don’t have an lemon flavoring. They decide to use vanilla instead. She also makes “Little Strawberry” a kitten out of the exra dough. After this they’re shown the garden. They want her to make some animals. Mr. Cookie takes them to the “Soda Water Stream” (Andy and Weekie). While wondering about eating the fish, they notice Hookie has come back and is right behind them. Hookie grabs Weekie, but he escapes. The Cookie Man hits him with his arm and he falls into the stream. They all run back home.
They make it inside, but the Goblin is now knocking at the door. They try to ignore him, but he won’t go away. The Cookie Man’s arm has fallen off. The Goblin says he’s going to break his other leg, and arms, and head. Raggedy Anne tho fixes him up. The Goblin is pitching a fit and says he’ll sit there until they get hungry and come out. Mrs. Cookie then prepares another chicken and they leave him there until he gets stuck. Then they’ll tie him up and carry him home. Eventually he falls asleep. The Cookie Dog starts to bark and this scares the Goblin. He tries to get up but he’s stuck. The doorstep gets stuck to him and he runs away. The dog chases after him and he loses his tail and Raggedy Anne has fix it. Andy volunteers to stay behind while Raggedy Anne goes with them to see some of Candy Land. But he accidently burns the chicken and Hookie returns. Not all are bunt. He’s able to save the cows and pigs. The chickens and ducks they have to throw out. They all land on Hookie’s nose.
Hookie starts up with his threats again, but the cow scots him across the yard and then tosses him into the fields. He tells them he’ll be back. They agree to forget about him. S o, they go into the house to make more chickens and ducks. Mrs. Cookie puts out sundaes. The children stay outside and Hookie again comes back and funs off with them. Mrs. And Mr. Cookie ends up getting broken in half somehow. Andy, and Annie go after the goblin and they sneak up on him when he sits down to rest. Andy picks up Strawberry and runs toward home. Anne fixes up the Cookie lady and man,
Mrs. Cookie gives Andy and Weekie cookie medals. They don’t want them but Weekie figures if they get hungry they can eat them. The Goblin then shows up again and brings a Snitznoodle. They try to capture them but the Snitznoodle sees the bravey medal and he gets scared and won’t take them. The Goblin gets annoyed and thumps him. He thumps him back and tells him never to do it again. He goes back with Weekie and Andy. Mrs. Cookie thinks the Snitznoodle will eat her children but he assures them he won’t. He says he just eats wind sandwiches. The Goblin shows up again, but the Snitznoodle gives him some hard thumps and he leaves. He then shows them how to make wind sandwiches. No one thinks much of them. Mrs. Cookie gives him an ice cream cone and he likes it better.
They all like the Snitznoodle. He gets another ice cream cone and a chicken. He says that he’ll stay there with them and they agree because he’s brave and can prtect them. So he goes home to get his nightie. The Goblin comes back and has taken the Snitznoodle’s nightie. So now he won’t come back. He says if they don’t let him in he’ll nibble the front door. He starts to nibble a hole wide enough to stick his head through. Raggedy Andy and Little Weekie grab his ears. They grab a pancake paddle and paddle his backside. On the way home, he runs into the Snitznoodle who gives him a few hard thumps. He’s happy to se his nightie is there. He was thinking he couldn’t live with them because he couldn’t find it. One night while Snitznoodle is out in the yard cleaning the dishes (weating the dishes) and Mr. Cookie is in the garden, Hookie comes back and tries to capture Mr. Cookie, After a rest, he sees a dark cloud forming and resumes his walk home, But then he trips and it turns out that the snow is powdered sugar snow They all notice Mr. Cookie is gone. The Cow tells them that he got carried away by the Goblin. They find his tracks and notice he’s stopped to rest off and on. The Snitznoodle sees the Cookie Man walking home with his legs sticking out. The top is tied. So, they cut him out and they head toward home. He left him sitting on the ground tired and snowed under.
The Snitznoodle chases the Goblin to a house where he locks the door. The Goblin thinks if he just waits him out the Snitznoodle will get hungry and go back to his house. But what the Goblin doesn’t know is the Snitznoodle has been used to eating wind sandwiches. After a while he doesn’t return home and the Cookie People and the Raggedy’s go to sleep. The Sntiznoodle falls alsep outside and the Goblin tires a rope around him.When he wakes up he’s tired to a chair. Raggedy Anne and Andy go to look for him the next day and the dog tracks him to the odd house. The Goblin tells them he’s going to turn him into sausage. Weekie says they can make a cookie balloon, and he can jump from the balloon, unto the roof, jump down the chimney and rescue the Snitznoodle. So, they make one out of a cream puff.
Bit the Gpn;om stocls jos jead pit the womdpw/ Weeloe dpes a VERY DUMB THING and tells him what the plan is. But the Goblin tells him jokes on him. The house doesn’t have a chimney and now he can’t get down. Raggedy Anne takes the story of Snow White as inspiration in a plan to disguise herself and go to the door and sell something. So she disguises herself as a witch with a basket of cream and jelly treat puffs, jelly tarts, and cookie with icing. He’s not fooled. Now he has Raggedy Anne. He know it was her by her button eyes. They decide to take a sausage grinder to the Goblins door. He’ll open the door and then they’ll burst in. She doesn’t have a grinder but she has a food chopper. This does the trick, he grabs the chooper, Andy rushes in and saves the others. The Snitz climbs the water sprout and saves Weekie.
After dinner they hear loud thumps and the house starts to fall apart. He says his name is the Hungry Howloon and the Goblin gave him permission to eat the Cookie People. They send him back to the Goblin to ask him for something to eat, It’s not long before he retuns. After a while he breaks the door right off it’s hinges. He deamnds to know which ones are good to eat. He snatches up Andy. He knows it won’t hurt him, but Mrs. Cookie steps in. He then grabs her. Raggedy Andy and the Howleen decide to go at it and they start to wresle. The Howleen strikes the end of the fireplace and they discover he’s made of rubber. He goes down. He doesn’t even have a mouth. They decide to fix him up and stuff him with cake chickens, cream puffs, chickens and lollipops. They put it in his side and pump him with air. He’s no longer hungry and Mrs. Cookie lets him live there too.
The Howleen goes out for a while and gets captured by the Goblin. Raggedy Anne and the Snitznoodle find a magic beanstalk and try to climb up to get the Howleen, but the Goblin sees this and wachiacks it down. Dandy goes to get him and doesn’t come back so Raggedy Anne and the Snitznoodle go to check it out. He doesn’t come out at first but then he yells out for them to go away. They find out he’s captured the Howleen, the Snitznoodle, and Raggedy Andy, He’s now taken the Howleen, taken all the food out, and now he’s flat again. So Raggedy Anne and Mr. Cookie stuff him up again with cookies and pump him up again. There’s a small hole under the house so they puncture the Howleen, then put him back up. It makes the Goblin’s house lean sideways. Then they all pull the house over. The house falls on them tho. Hookie is delighted! But the Howleen didn’t get the house fallen on him. Now he’s twice as large as he was. The Goblin sees this and runs off. He finds a iron bar sets the house straight and rescues the others. When they get homme, the door is locked and the Goblin is inside. The Howleen goes to the Goblins house to get a iron bar but they have to go after him. He’s gotten locked in the Goblins house. When they get back, no one there, but the Gob tells them he’s changed his mind about being mean. It served him right to have this house turned over. So, he decided to do something nice. So, when they left he’s set the table and prepared a nice dinner for them. Now he says everything is ready and they can have their dinner. Then they all sit down to eat. So, the Goblin now gives him the title of “house girl” and he’s invited to stay at the Cookie House.
Raggedy Anne and Andy stay at the house a few days and then Raggedy Anne says they must return to the nursery. So, they leave a note and tip toe out. They think about taking some of the incycle but decide against it. They agree they had a nice adventure.
Ratomg 8 This was charming! I had another version of this book when I was younger. It was a Scratch and Sniff book. It had the same characters only Mr and Mrs. Cookie’s daughter was named “Little Raisin”. I was delighted to find that this was an alternate version and longer. I adored this land full of chocolate chickens, and cream puffs, and soada water streams, and flavored icycles. I could also smell the scents just like in the book I had! So fun! As many books as I’ve read this year this was another one I enjoyed even more highly then some of the other more “serious” biographies and YA books I’ve read because it was colorful. Lol Just don’t read it if your hungry! Your hungry and don’t have anything sweet to snack on. You might just find yourself making a run to the store for chocolate chip cookies or cinnamon rolls!
March 5, 2010
Very cutesy and very repetitive. Diffently should not be read all at once it will drive you a little batty!
September 16, 2019
This was a rather odd book, though enjoyable to read to the kids. It gets really weird sometimes since so many characters are made of food and/or are magically able to be alive. Multiple times characters casually talk about eating the other person until they realize that they are nice people and should be friends. It can be disturbing to think about as an adult, but to kids it's all fun and makes perfect sense. Like when I asked how a person made of cookie can eat cookies at every meal, my son simply responded, "They just get bigger! They are made of cookies!" Or the fact that Hookie-the-Goblin wants to make these dolls into noodle soup, which the book points out doesn't make any sense. The kids thought it was so funny.
I do like that as the characters ran into all sorts of problems they would just sit and brainstorm ways out of their problems and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. It showed good examples of problem-solving. Though some of the solutions to their problems really didn't make much sense but somehow made it all work out, which is some of the charm of the story.
The story is more like a series of short stories with Hookie-the-Goblin causing all sorts of problems, and then it ends all happily ever after with a decent message. The kids would beg to read it every night, and for once this book was Jared's idea to read. He was very interested in it. We'll likely find some other Raggedy Ann books in the future.
I do like that as the characters ran into all sorts of problems they would just sit and brainstorm ways out of their problems and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. It showed good examples of problem-solving. Though some of the solutions to their problems really didn't make much sense but somehow made it all work out, which is some of the charm of the story.
The story is more like a series of short stories with Hookie-the-Goblin causing all sorts of problems, and then it ends all happily ever after with a decent message. The kids would beg to read it every night, and for once this book was Jared's idea to read. He was very interested in it. We'll likely find some other Raggedy Ann books in the future.
May 20, 2019
Such an awesome book.
I read these books to the kids at bedtime. One chapter a night. It calms them down and gets them quiet. I hold the story for ransom everytime they talk or move around (I basically just stop reading until they are quiet and still). I love the lessons work into the stories too.
I read these books to the kids at bedtime. One chapter a night. It calms them down and gets them quiet. I hold the story for ransom everytime they talk or move around (I basically just stop reading until they are quiet and still). I love the lessons work into the stories too.
January 30, 2023
Another funny and imaginative story from Johnny Gruelle. This one is a little repetitious ... the same mean character bothering the "good guys" and always finding out that "crime doesn't pay". But it's creative and funny and entertaining, and a great addition to this collection!
July 18, 2015
Back in the seventies, I remember babysitting a friend's daughter. She was about 8 and I was in my mid-teens, and instead of using the B Word, her mom told her that we were going to have a sleepover while she and her husband were away. That worked--her pride was saved, and I got paid (on the way home the next day). Anyway, after bathtime came the bedtime story, and the little girl asked me to read her the beginning of this book. The illustrations were interesting, and the story caught my attention--Raggedy Ann and Andy were enjoying a revival in the doll market just then, and I had had no idea there were books about them! However I only read the first few pages. Time passed and I vaguely remembered the story and wondered how it ended.
Now I know. It's an odd little down-the-rabbit-hole story in which the Raggedies find themselves in a magical edible land, way before Willy Wonka! There's the bad goblin who runs around trying to make trouble and grind people up to make noodle soup or sausages, which wouldn't work because everyone but the rag dolls is made of cookies and candy! And so is everything else! It was a funny little book until about half way through, when things start to get repetitive and Raggedy Ann, instead of taking everything with optimism and a chuckle, starts getting very saccherine and sententious on the subject of "the flowers in friendship's garden" and such as that. Glurge. I also found the ending truncated and therefore not-too-believable even for a kids' book of 1931; I got the definite impression the writer had run out of ideas and just chopped the ending off with the obligatory triumph of niceness over meanness.
I was amused, however, by the minor product placement (Raggedy Ann actually mentions "Nabiscos"!! I bet she means vanilla wafers. You could get away with that in those days) and some of the vintage kids' slang: Andy mentions that something will happen, sure pop! and both speak of "real-for-sure" animals etc. "Kindly" seems to be Mr Gruelle's favourite positive adjective to apply to people, as it occurs at least once a page.
An okay read for undemanding, doll-loving little girls under 8, with lovely illustrations and some rather silly ideas about food. Did you know it's easier to think if you have icecream first? No, that's not one of the silly ideas; I've always known it. It's nice to have documented evidence, though.
Now I know. It's an odd little down-the-rabbit-hole story in which the Raggedies find themselves in a magical edible land, way before Willy Wonka! There's the bad goblin who runs around trying to make trouble and grind people up to make noodle soup or sausages, which wouldn't work because everyone but the rag dolls is made of cookies and candy! And so is everything else! It was a funny little book until about half way through, when things start to get repetitive and Raggedy Ann, instead of taking everything with optimism and a chuckle, starts getting very saccherine and sententious on the subject of "the flowers in friendship's garden" and such as that. Glurge. I also found the ending truncated and therefore not-too-believable even for a kids' book of 1931; I got the definite impression the writer had run out of ideas and just chopped the ending off with the obligatory triumph of niceness over meanness.
I was amused, however, by the minor product placement (Raggedy Ann actually mentions "Nabiscos"!! I bet she means vanilla wafers. You could get away with that in those days) and some of the vintage kids' slang: Andy mentions that something will happen, sure pop! and both speak of "real-for-sure" animals etc. "Kindly" seems to be Mr Gruelle's favourite positive adjective to apply to people, as it occurs at least once a page.
An okay read for undemanding, doll-loving little girls under 8, with lovely illustrations and some rather silly ideas about food. Did you know it's easier to think if you have icecream first? No, that's not one of the silly ideas; I've always known it. It's nice to have documented evidence, though.
March 12, 2010
This is my favorite Raggedy Ann book - I love that they visit a land that is made of edibles, including the people! And of course, the villain, Hooky the Goblin, is "naughty" and in the end, everything works out. The colored illustrations are awesome, and I like the old-time feel of the narration.
August 4, 2011
This was read to me as a kid, and I have looked at it again, as the illustrations are lovely
January 2, 2015
inscribed, 1943
October 29, 2015
Was loving the new, little world, but it became quite repetitive, and sometimes pointless, after they arrived in Cookie Land. It was still a cute, imagined story.
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