The miniature living room furniture and rug were handmade by Twig’s Grandmother Orton. Twig’s childhood dolls and dollhouse were memorialized in Big Susan, these dolls, their furniture and a replica of her dollhouse are on display in the Highland Park Illinois Historical Society. She lived there for more than sixty years. In the 1940s she moved to a house in Mason, New Hampshire bought with her first royalty check from TWIG. A dear woman, she signed every letter to me that way and always included a little twig with red berries.Įlizabeth Orton Jones, nicknamed Twig more than fifty years ago, was born on Jin Highland Park, Illinois. Since the 1940s the author was known by her nickname, which was Twig. They were part of the 60th Anniversary Edition (2002). There was a Limited Edition of 200 numbered books signed by Elizabeth Orton Jones, they've sold out but you may still find some from used booksellers. And this is the story of what happened in and around that little house one Saturday afternoon.Ī story full of magic, full of fun, full of fantasy interwoven with reality, and full of the kind of tenderness which belongs most particularly to the very young. When it was upside down, it looked like a pretty little house, just the right size for a fairy! Twig stood it upside down next to the dandelion, not far from the stream. It was a bare little world, with nothing but a dandelion and a stream of drainpipe water to make it beautiful with nobody but Old Boy, the ice-wagon horse, Old Girl, the cat, and the Sparrows, to keep Twig company.īut one day, out in the alley, Twig found an empty tomato can, with pictures of bright red tomatoes all round it. The back yard behind that house was Twig’s little world. Twig was just a plain, ordinary little girl who lived on the fourth floor of a “high sort of house” in the city.
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