Raggedy Andy Stories

***Raggedy Andy Stories*** is an American children's novel written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle. The second book in the *Raggedy Ann* series, it introduces her brother, Raggedy Andy, through an anthology of short stories. Published in 1920, the book has since entered the public domain.

## Plot

**How Raggedy Andy Came:** Daddy receives Raggedy Andy bundled up in the mail. He reunites him with Raggedy Ann and leaves the dolls alone in his office to catch up. The next morning, he finds Andy has fallen over and Ann is cradling his head in her lap.

**The Nursery Dance:** Raggedy Andy arrives in the nursery, meets the other toys, and tells how he spent decades locked in an attic keeping company to a family of mice.

**The Spinning Wheel:** Raggedy Andy instigates a pillow fight with the other toys and loses his arm in the process. They sneak out of the nursery for a needle and thread, and as Raggedy Ann sews his arm back on, she recalls doing the same decades earlier when Andy got caught in a spinning wheel.

**The Taffy Pull:** While the family is away for a few days, the toys sneak into the kitchen and have a merry time making candy, which they ultimately give to a pair of poor children.

**The Rabbit Chase:** Fido is initially perplexed by a rabbit, but when it gets into the nursery, he learns that it's an Easter Bunny. The toys help the creature leave a surprise for Marcella.

**The New Tin Gutter:** Raggedy Andy and the Penny Dolls go for a slide down the new tin gutters and get stuck in the drain.

**Dr. Raggedy Andy:** Marcella pretends the dolls are sick and gives the French Dolly heaping doses of sugary medicine which glues her eyes shut, so Raggedy Andy disassembles her and cleans out her head.

**Raggedy Andy's Smile:** Two-year-old Dickie feeds Raggedy Andy orange juice, which erodes his painted smile and stains his face. That night as the toys come alive, they're taken by surprise by Santa Claus, who restores Andy and all of the other dolls to their former glory.

**The Wooden Horse:** Marcella's new gift from Santa is a wooden horse who gives rides to all of the other toys.

**Making Angels in the Snow:** When Raggedy Andy returns home from a trip to Grandma's with a freshly-mended wound, he tells the other toys how it happened. He and Marcella were making snow angels, he got left outside, froze solid, and Marcella accidentally broke his arm.

**The Singing Shell:** Grandma gives Marcella a large old shell which she uses as a doorstop in the nursery. The shell tells the toys about its time underwater, the diver who brought it to shore, and it encourages everyone to place their ears to it so that they can hear the music of their hearts.

## Characters

* Raggedy Ann
* Raggedy Andy
* Marcella
* Babette
* Uncle Clem
* Twin Pennies
* Santa Claus
* Fido
* Dickie
* Johnny Cricket

## Adaptations

**Dr. Raggedy Andy** was the story featured on Andy's card from the Raggedy Ann and Friends Cardbook set.

Adaptations of **Raggedy Andy's Smile** and **Doctor Raggedy Andy** were made into a read-along cassette in 1979,

**Raggedy Andy's Smile** was adapted again for The Raggedy Ann & Andy Storybook in 1980.

## External Links

* Project Gutenberg - eBook
* Libravox - Audiobook
* Internet Archive - eBook