''The Countess's Calamity'' is a 2003 children's book written and illustrated by

Sally Gardner Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Book Award for Children's Book and the Carnegie Medal for '' Maggot Moon'' (Hot Key Books, 2012). Under her pseudonym Wray Delaney she has also w ...

. It won the

Nestlé Smarties Book Prize The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, and Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for a time, was a set of annual awards for British children's books that ran from 1985 to 2007. It was administered by BookTrust, an independent charity that promotes books and r ...

Bronze Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize
It is the first of the Tales from the Box series about sentient toys.

Plot summary

After a box of toys is abandoned at a park, the intervention of some friendly mice helps the toys go on with their lives. One of the dolls, the Countess, has trouble adapting.

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2003 British novels 2003 children's books British children's novels Children's fantasy novels Novels about sentient toys Bloomsbury Publishing books {{2000s-child-novel-stub