I am too old to have grown up with American Girl dolls, and my daughter, at 17 months, is too young. But I mentioned the dolls to our 22-year-old nanny, Ellie, a nursing student at the University of Wisconsin who grew up near Milwaukee, and a few weeks later she brought me two heavy shopping…
I was never a Barbie kind of girl. While my friends collected armies of pink, plastic mannequins — oh, the sequined gowns and magenta workout getups and never-ending ponytails of faux blond locks, not to mention Barbie’s Corvette and three-story dream house, complete with working elevator, garage and pool — I was given educational toys….
Step away from your daughter’s doll collection — one of them could be an arsonist. Last month, American Girl revealed that its newest character, Rebecca Rubin, would be based on a young Jewish girl. Unfortunately, young Rebecca shares the same name with real life fugitive Rebecca J. Rubin, who is currently wanted by the F.B.I….
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