Desperately Seeking Dorrie
June 10, 2011 @ 9:13 am | Filed under: Books
This morning, for no particular reason, I was hit with a wave of longing for Patricia Coombs’s Dorrie the Little Witch books. Man, I loved those books when I was little. I was sure we had a few here, but I can’t find them. How is that possible? Dorrie’s the classic well-meaning character who keeps getting into terrible scrapes; the fact that her muddles are magical ones ups the fun quotient enormously.
Hmm…we were going through the costume stash the other day and found a pair of long red-and-white-striped stockings (from a Pippi Longstocking outfit, maybe?). Maybe they reminded me of Dorrie, who beat Punky Brewster to the mismatched socks look by twenty years.
Rilla’s just the right age. Library trip ahoy.
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Julianna Baggott says:
LOVED these as a kid. was just talking to otis about them — he loves witches. MUST find. j
On June 10, 2011 at 9:37 am
Shauna says:
I loved the Dorrie books! We would practically fight over them at the grade school library. I noticed them at our little town’s library a couple of months ago, along with a bunch of other out-of-print books from my childhood that our library hasn’t weeded out as bigger libraries have by now.
On June 10, 2011 at 10:44 am
Shauna says:
I loved the Dorrie books! We would practically fight over them at the grade school library. I noticed them at our little town’s library a couple of months ago, along with a bunch of other out-of-print books from my childhood that our library hasn’t weeded out as bigger libraries have by now.
On June 10, 2011 at 10:44 am
mamacrow says:
oh my gosh, I was taking them down of the shelf to read to Petal just the other day! I love Dorrie. The illustrations are just the best!
Hope you find replacements soon š
On June 10, 2011 at 11:08 am
Dori says:
Oh! How could I have forgotten about the Dorrie books??? Especially given my name! I’m going to have to check our library! : )
On June 11, 2011 at 3:33 pm
emily says:
i loved the dorrie books!
On June 15, 2011 at 7:42 am
Leah says:
I had never heard of these, and was just going through my Google Reader (that was a bit neglected this week) and saw this post. i am SO HAPPY you mentioned them – my daughter is a Dorrie and she will be so thrilled to get these. I ordered a couple from abebooks.com and we’ll go from there. Thanks for leading me to these!
On June 19, 2011 at 11:15 am
Melissa Wiley says:
The library website tells me the first batch I ordered has just come in…cannot WAIT to share them with Rilla tomorrow!
On June 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm