The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson

"The old doll-maker Tatsuhiko poured boiling water into the teapot with trembling hands and inhaled deeply."

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Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.

Delacorte Press; 201 pages