S715: Story Range, comes with butterfly girl used by the flies
Norma Kassirer, Miracle Elizabeth
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, destroyed 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. 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 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.
She is actually seeking resolve a puzzle out of a lacking doll owned by a unique girl titled Sally
The reading-aloud-in-storm scence is not in this book, but the rest of the details match. The book is Magic Elizabeth, but the part about reading to children in a rainstorm isn’t part of it. Definitely the book. (suite…)