Before the Internet and the enormous American Girl stores were a thing, getting the American Girl catalog in the mail was an epic event. Back then, there were only three dolls to covet: bonnet-wearing Swedish immigrant Kirsten, bespectacled World War I–era patriot Molly, and Victorian society gal Samantha, who could rock a hair bow like no […]
There are as many different reasons for choosing your favorite American Girl doll as there are American girls. Maybe you felt a kinship with a certain doll because of her attitude, her looks, or her era—or perhaps you rebelled by choosing one who seemed like your polar opposite. Whatever your rationale, there was a doll […]
There’s a healthy love of reading, and then there’s geeked-out, vision-wrecking devotion to the mesmerizing power of books. As youths with our noses stuck in various volumes, some of us skewed toward the latter territory. But because we’re grownups now, and because it’s become, finally, COOL to geek out over books (right?), we’ve decided to […]
