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List Price: $7.00 | | Publisher: Sandpiper
Salesrank: 166061
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| Our Price: $3.15 |
| Used Price: $0.21 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
When Lizzie Rhinehart's father is lost in the Florida Everglades, she calls on her golden retriever, tiny Guatemalan "trouble dolls, " and a magic macaw to save him before a ferocious storm begins. "A welcome blend of myth and reality, set in modern times but connected by folklore to the world of animals and magic."--Publishers Weekly. Full color.
Trouble Dolls Reviews:
Introduce your kids to Jimmy Buffett's imagination 
2008-09-10 - I haven't read this myself but I've read all of Jimmy's novels and his autobiography. I figured his children's books would inspire the same imagination for kids that his other books have done for me.
The twins' mom tells me that the girls love it.
Child's Book
2007-03-09 - This is another book that is written for children but is entertaining for children. My grandchildren enjoyed it.
Story can't figure out its audience, or whether it is realistic or fantasy 
2006-01-13 - What a mess! This story has identity problems all over the place. It is produced in picture-book format but is too advanced and too long for a picture book, but too short and not developed enough for a chapter book. It is written in realistic style, but dolls are alive and birds speak and everyone can hear them; the housekeeper just picks up the girl's pillow and there's village of dolls. The housekeeper also lets the 9-year-old girl go out in her skiff to search for her missing father even though there is a big storm coming, "because the trouble dolls would guide her well and keep her safe." Why didn't the dad take them, then?? Magic isn't taken far enough to make an alternate world, and the dolls and talking animals are simply incongruous in ours. I enjoyed that the Guatemalan trouble dolls slipped in and out of Lizzy's map, but in general this was a mish-mash story.
TROUBLE DOLLS PROVES NOT TROUBLING TO READ!
1999-12-27 - TROUBLE DOLLS by JIMMY BUFFETT and SAVANNAH JANE BUFFETT is a really great story! It has many elements within it that are similar to the life of JIMMY BUFFETT, which PARROTHEADS will be sure to notice. The imagination runs wild in reading TROUBLE DOLLS! Mental pictures of the Florida Keys and longing for them are results of reading this book. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, too! I highly recommend this book to people of all ages - PARROTHEADS . . . lovers of the tropics . . . children . . . adults that need a getaway for just a few minutes. The book is great! Find out for yourself!
HE writes like he sings
1999-11-16 - I read this book and JOLLY MON to my fourth and fifth grade students. They LOVED it and wanted to know if he had written any more books. The story is sweet and my students were impressed with Lizzie's courage and sailing ability.
