Racketty-Packetty House, As Told By Queen Crosspatch Platanus Publishing

&`;Racketty-Packetty House was in a corner of Cynthia`s nursery. And it was not in the best corner either. It was in the corner behind the door, and that was not at all a fashionable neighborhood. Racketty-Packetty House had been pushed there to be out of the way when Tidy Castle was brought in, on Cynthia`s birthday. As soon as she saw Tidy Castle Cynthia did not care for Racketty- Packetty House and indeed was quite ashamed of it. She thought the corner behind the door quite good enough for such a shabby old dolls` house, when there was the beautiful big new one built like a castle and furnished with the most elegant chairs and tables and carpets and curtains and ornaments and pictures and beds and baths and lamps and book-cases, and with a knocker on the front door, and a stable with a pony cart in it at the back. The minute she saw it she called out.”