And if you’re looking for another interactive advent calendar, reach for this one, which features 24 paperboard figurines of all the historical American Girl dolls, starting with Kaya, whose ...

Courtesy American Girl Fans can choose from eight characters: 1854's frontier girl Kirsten, 1934's Kit Kittredge, 1944's Molly, 1904's Samantha, 1986's Courtney, 1974's Julie, 1954's Maryellen and ...

She also is an icon for many Minnesota girls who grew up with the American Girl line of dolls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with its catalogs and books describing a year in the life of each ...

The key to the success of the American Girl stories is their achievement in appealing to the ordinary — the American Girls are not “chosen ones,” they do not embark on a literary hero’s journey or ...

The inaugural American Girl dolls did something novel for a children’s toy: they taught U.S. history. One doll, Kirsten, was a Swedish immigrant whose family settled in Minnesota Territory in ...