WAUGH, Sylvia. Mennyms Alive. NY: Greenwillow [1997]. 8vo, 224pp. Brown quarter-cloth stamped in silver with orange boards stamped in blind. Orange endpapers. Spine ends a tad rubbed else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. With a bookplate signed by the author, Sylvia Waugh, laid in! First US edition. The fifth and final book in Waugh's wonderful series about a family of life-sized rag dolls who have learned to live along side humanity. The Mennyms have always lived in danger, ever since their maker, Kate Henshaw, instilled in them an indomitable life force. That life force had kept them going through trials and good times. But now with shocking suddenness, that life force has abandoned them all except for Soobie - the sole survivor. As the blue Mennym he's always been a bit special and it's amazing he's come this far when others have perished, but are his problems just beginning?
