Bøger af Barbara Thompson

"Daisie Moon, a doll who can walk and talk, runs away on a pony with her friend Annie O and her enemy Fern to a travelling circus they find deep in the forest. Turns out everyone may not be happy at this circus, including the clowns. The girls don't want to stay but Coletta the Great promises them circus acts of their own"--

In 1789, Daisie falls off a ship and lands in Philadelphia where she meets Eliza Principle, a twelve-year-old girl. Daisie is a doll but can walk and talk-which she keeps secret. Eliza wants to be popular with the girls in town and thinks her doll can help her but soon learns Daisie's secrets may get her into trouble.

This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures.