"Can a doll be a hero? Hardly. China and wax, wood and rag are not heroic stuffs, but perhaps Impunity Jane, the little pocket doll had something of the irresistable charm of the imp in her song, 'Imp-imp-impunity,' or perhaps, like a cat, she had nine lives. She was a pocket doll, made to go in a pocket-atleast that was what she thought - everyone else thought she should go in a doll's house. Rumer Godden, who is well known to children as author of many other delightful books, tells the story of how at last Impunity Jane got into a pocket. A pocket isn't shut away like a doll's house: in it one meets the rough and tumble life, and this is also the story, charmingly illustrated, how Impunity Jane had to be brave, to suffer and endure like any hero, and of how she escaped...with impunity."--Book jacket.