It is in this equalizing front that the American Girl dolls, and the characters that they represent, become a unifying face for girlhood. Their stories, as told through their books, encourage young ...

American Girl is dedicated to racial equity, and as part of that commitment, they’re providing free books written by Black women and featuring Black heroines. According to the company’s ...

American Girl via Amazon “Parts of your body may make ... The company was later bought by Mattel in 1998 and has since made modern dolls and books teaching young girls about their bodies ...

American Girl was definitely a thing I shared with my ... I'm a queer person and did not know that as a child reading these books, it's been fun and empowering to see queer-coded characters ...

The American Girl doll was invented in the nineteen-eighties by an enterprising former grade-school teacher and news anchor in her mid-forties named Pleasant Rowland, during a visit to Colonial ...

Each doll came with a series of six books that detailed her life and times, providing both educational value and entertainment. The unique selling point of American Girl dolls was their strong ...

Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made friends with a Dakota girl, stole animal pelts from a dead fur trapper ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made friends with a Dakota girl, stole animal pelts from a ...

Since 2018, Horrocks, along with her co-creator Mary Mahoney, has been using her PhD in history to revisit the American Girl doll books, widely read by young girls in the United States. The podcast, ...

No one is a better candidate for a biblio-memoir than Glory Edim, the creator of Well-Read Black Girl ... reflected in the many books she read. Jeremy Dauber’s ‘American Scary’ is a thorough ...