Trouble Dolls by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett. A girl's Guatamalan trouble dolls guide a girl in search of her father, gone missing in the Florida Everglades.
Written by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett. Illustrated by Lambert Davis. Stated first edition, 1991. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers.
Yes, that Jimmy Buffett!
Guatamalan Trouble, or Worry, Dolls are an old tradition; when a child is burdened by a problem, he's given worry dolls to tuck under his pillow, and sleep on it, and when he wakes up in the morning his problem is gone.
In the Buffetts' story, Lizzy Rhinehart's father, an environmentalist, goes missing in the Florida Everglades. When she goes to bed, she lifts her pillow to find a village of worry dolls that her father gave her working on all kinds of problems. With their guidance, she and her dog set off to find her father. The lively illustrations imbue the story with the colors of Florida's natural surroundings.
Buffett and his daughter also collaborated on The Jolly Mon, their first book, published in 1988.
Lambert Davis illustrated The Jolly Mon and many other books since then. Discover more of his books at Goodreads.
Goodreads.com/author/show/484382.Lambert_Davis
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