It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin ... that belied her insensate status. She is, after all, just a doll, albeit a soft-bodied, large and quite beautiful ...

It did. “Last year it was still too big,” Jane marveled. “Now it’s just right!” Jane has saved all of her daughters’ American Girl dolls. As she pulls them from a half dozen plastic ...

That year, she lost a friend to cholera ... But Kirsten and the other American Girl dolls represent far more than all that, Mary Mahoney, a historian, an author and co-host of the podcast “Dolls of ...

selling items to other American Girl enthusiasts who often get excited to see all the retired items she stocks. The speculation around the Girl of the Year doll each year is a rush that adds value ...

Decorating wands at the craft table is Monica Edwards and her daughter, Mariah Edwards. The Galloway family attended the tea ...

and all manner of advice and craft books. To maintain the company’s popularity and expand interest, in 2001, American Girl began offering a “Girl of the Year” doll and book. These books ...

Aurora Fenzl brought a Kirsten doll to a program about American Girl dolls Saturday at the Minnesota History Center. (Greta Kaul/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...