Beverly's Sylvanian Village - Special Figures - Play Sets - US

Today is the first day of summer. All the children of Cloverleaf Corners are finished with school. Some of them will go to a sleep-away camp. Some will spend their days at the Cloverleaf Corners Park. Others will swim at the pool or the lake in the country. Susie Snow-Warren knows exactly what she plans to do all summer. She will play with her dollhouses!

Ever since she was very young, Susie loved to decorate and play "pretend". When her mom and dad presented her with her first dollhouse, she jumped for joy.

"I will make curtains for the windows, knit rugs for the floors, and draw wallpaper patterns for the walls of my dollhouse!"

"I hope you will spend some time outdoors, too," said her dad. He worried that Susie was spending too much time alone in the house.

"Don't worry, Daddy. I will take my dollhouses out onto the porch and play in the sun!"

Susie merrily gathered all her miniature furniture and her houses and headed out the door.

"Oh, no," she exclaimed. "I didn't know there was a ballgame going on in the yard."

Her cousin Gromwell Cottontail was visiting for the summer. He, along with Peter and Pansy Pigglywink, were having quite a good time, running around the yard, throwing and catching a ball.

"Come join us," invited Pansy.

"Yes, we'll play four-way-catch," said Gromwell.

"No, thank you," Susie replied. "I want to play with my dollhouses."

"But you play with them all the time," said Peter Pigglywink. "Why don't you stop doing that and have some fun playing ball with us?"

"Because I like to play with my dollhouses," answered Susie.

Peter just shrugged and threw the ball to pansy. Soon the three ball players were running and laughing again.

Susie couldn't help but watch them as she busied herself decorating the living room of her largest dollhouse.

"Sometimes I do get lonely playing all by myself," Susie silently admitted to herself. Just then the ball flew up onto the porch. She looked down and saw that Peter was waiting for her to throw it. Susie wound up her arm and threw the ball the best she could.

"Wow! You are a really good thrower!" shouted Peter.

Susie giggled. It was fun to throw the ball. Maybe she could leave the dollhouses on the porch for just a little while.

Soon Susie, Peter, Pansy and Gromwell were all out of breath from running, throwing, catching and mostly from laughing. As Susie ran under the porch to fetch a mis-thrown ball, she glanced up at her dollhouses.

"I can't wait to play with them tonight," she thought. "But right now I'm having much more fun playing ball.