The biggest is Anna (and he tasks her with taking care of her little sisters) the smallest doll is Nina. In Russia a doll maker makes a matryoshka (those nesting doll toys) with six dolls which fit into each other each having a name and saying they are sisters. 'The Littlest Matryoshka' is a great reminder of family caring for one another. They have to support, encourage, and love one another because we as parents will not always be around, just as the dolls were shipped off from their maker when it was time. We tell our girls all the time that throughout their lives most friends will come and go, but their sisters will always be their family. When the littlest one is reunited with her sisters, everything is how it should be. Though the dolls in the story cannot actually move or speak, they can see their sisters and feel pain, happiness, fear, relief. Like in the story of 'The Littlest Matryoshka', we have girls (three daughters) who are taught to look out for one another and protect each other. I love the artistic designs and history of the dolls and feels it brings the old world into our new world. My 3 daughters all love to play with them, read books about them, and some decorate our kitchen. We collect nesting dolls to go with the vintage set my husband was given before we married. I love this book so much because it reflects my family in a nice way.
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