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| Tales of the Sisters Kane | 
 enlarge | Author: Christy Kane
Publisher: Baby Tattoo Books
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1497074
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0977894940
EAN: 9780977894949
ASIN: 0977894940
Publication Date: October 15, 2006
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Product Description
Artist and storyteller Christy Kane creates life size, one-of-a-kind, handmade dolls then photographs them in antique settings to illustrate her original stories of social misfits. She is a triple threat whose dolls have remarkably distinct personalities, whose photographs are nuanced and richly detailed, and whose stories are haunting and unforgettable. This collection of stories includes the tales of: * Lily (who has lost nine fingers, one-by-one, due to her careless fascination with a sewing machine), * Polly (who has been unable to stop traveling the world since receiving a pair of roller-skates on her fifteenth birthday), * Callalilly (whose unchecked temper has doomed her to becoming a hook-handed piano player), * The triplets Hyacinth, Azaeleah and Violah (whose baby sister Wisteria has gone missing under troubling and mysterious circumstances).
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loved this book! October 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
i pre orderd this book in augost, and it was very much worth the wait!I loved falling into the very precocious and vivid lives of the sisters kane. christy kane paints a world of whimsical and mischeves stories that you will want to read over and over again!! i cannot wait for the next book, and the diabolical yet endearing adventures the sisters get into next! this is a must read..
Refreshingly Unique book! January 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I honestly do not think that there is another book out there like this. Not only are the tales unique to the author but she designs, creates and photographs the incredible dolls in this book! It is written and photographed along the lines of humor one may find in a Monty Python movie. Yet the tales are unique and wonder of wonder in this day of feel good books, there are consequences to bad choices :-). To add to its slightly macabre charm are the amazing photographs of the author's creativeness. I found that my teenagers thought this the coolest book around. Think of the original Grimm fairy tales to decide what younger ages would enjoy this book. It is not Barney but then again, it is refreshingly NOT some TV sitcom with smart mouthed kids on it controlling impotent parents!
All in all, a unique contribution to the world of literature and art by a single artist!
Taking me back to Milne January 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When A.A. Milne died, and took his smirk-rhyming poetry with him, the world lost Pooh's creator and one of the best animators of poetic fun ever to whisper to the children of the world. He's back, though using a young woman as his medium. And though she can put meter and rhyme to work in a style similar to Milne's, Christy Kane sidles off in a direction a bit south of One Hundred Acre Wood. In "Tales of the Sisters Kane", Christy Kane uses some dark poetic images and even darker photographhic images of her "doll daughters" to teach all of us about the unfair things that can happen to people. The poetry and the short stories gently remind us that life just isn't always fair and good, but if we respect others and try to see through their sufferings, that we are all the same, and all beautiful. Easy to read, tart with a little of the Goth acid, this is a message for moms, dads and all the children in between.
Unique and engaging classics in our own time! January 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The multi-talented author, Christy Kane, has created beautifully original stories featuring the dolls that she also created. The stories revolve around the Sisters Kane who learn very valuable lessons through their own mistakes, which are life-lessons for modern day children. I'll even say adults. The dolls are amazingly captured in black and white photography, which in itself stands alone. Coupled with the wonderful poetry, Ms. Kane has given us a treasure of stories that will surely become classics.
AMAZING! January 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book offers the reader a bird's eye view of harrowing life experiences as seen through the eyes of dolls whose names are as charming as their tales. It is one of the most whimsical, engaging books I have ever read.
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