New American Girl Historical will be Caroline Abbott

American Girl Historical Character Caroline Abbott

Pin itUPDATE 5/14/2012 – American Girl posted on their Facebook page today that the new historical character for 2012 will be named Caroline Abbott along with the image below: And here is the cover of her craft book: Obviously no photo of her but the flower basket is interesting. UPDATED: We have a possible new [...]

American Girl of the Year 2013 – What We Know So Far

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Pin itSince it is only April and one of our awesome readers sent me an interesting link, let’s start the official American Girl GOTY 2013 what we know post! Obviously at this point in the game we don’t know much, but we do know that the illustrator of her books will be Sarah Davis – [...]

St. Louis to Get An American Girl Store

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Pin itUPDATE 2/8/12 – If you go to the American Girl site and look for events, the St. Louis location has events listed for the beginning of May. I am going to guess (operative word guess) that they will be doing their grand opening the first weekend in May. As of now, you cannot book [...]

Updated American Girl of the Year 2012 – What We Know So Far

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Pin itIt’s that time of year again! The time of year where American Girl doll fans of all ages start to wonder… they want to know… they just can’t wait… for the American Girl of the Year for the coming year. In this case it means we are all wanting to know just who the [...]

Updated with New Pictures – The New American Girl Historical Characters

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Pin itUPDATED May 25, 2011!! Thanks to Gabriela who has been lucky enough to see the books first hand at the book publisher’s show and is sending me pictures. Meet Marie-Grace and Meet Cécile book covers. Cecile lives with her sculptor father, businesswoman mother, older brother, grandfather, widowed aunt and her son. She also has [...]

UPDATED – New American Girl Historical Dolls Coming Summer 2011

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Pin it UPDATE!! We now know that there will be two new historical characters from American Girl this year and their names are…. Marie-Grace and Cécile!  Meet Marie-Grace will be authored by Sarah Masters Buckey and Meet Cécile will be authored by Denise Lewis Patrick. What we don’t know is if one of the dolls [...]

Scoop – 2011 Historical Doll Information

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Pin itUPDATE: A new historical doll is on its way. According to American Girl, girls who are on the 25th anniversary cruise will be introduced to the new historical doll: New Historical Character Event Your girl can be one of the first to enjoy this in-depth introduction to the newest addition to our historical character [...]

Will There Be Two New American Girl Historicals in 2010?

Pin itOne thing I am certain of when it comes to the American Girl doll collecting community is that once there is rumor of a new doll, they become very impatient for new information. We just want to know all the details as soon as possible. For 2010 what we know so far, is that [...]

Scoop – American Girl Lanie Book Cover Revealed

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Pin it Thanks to some amazing sleuthing and generous sharing from a Doll Diaries reader – here is the photo of the Lanie book cover. And UPDATED with the cover art for the second book, Lanie’s Real Adventures. According to the book cover, Lanie is NOTHING like we expected her to look – but it [...]

The American Girl of the Year (GOTY) 2010 Will Be Lanie

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Pin itUPDATE: Here is what the cover of the book looks like: As the release date for the American Girl of the Year – GOTY 2010 gets closer and closer, we are starting to get more clues as to who she is and what her stories will be all about. I think we can confirm [...]

Barbie Releasing Exclusive TRU Twilight Bella and Edward Dolls

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Pin it The Twilight movie phenomenom is coming to the Barbie collection. Toys “R” Us will being selling exclusive Bella and Edward “Barbie and Ken” dolls in October 2009. The Canadian TRU already has the dolls available for pre-sale but they won’t ship until late November. Characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are dressed in [...]

Scoop – First Pictures of Rebecca Rubin – American Girls’ Next Historical Doll

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Pin it Thank you Madison, a Doll Diaries reader, for sharing a scan of a mailer she received announcing the debut of Rebecca Rubin, the next historical doll from American Girl. She definitely is pretty and while she has some similarities to Samantha, she is truly beautiful and unique. Her story sounds very exciting – [...]

Scoop New American Girl Rebecca Book Titles

Pin itUPDATED! To see the first pictures of the Rebecca book covers visit the First Pictures of Rebecca post – and we just added the newest sneak peek picture of Rebecca from American Girl. It looks like American Girl will be releasing their new doll in the historical collection, Rebecca,  in late May or early [...]

Scoop – New Catalog Items Including Chrissa’s Collection

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Pin itSome lucky individuals have already received their new catalogs with the pictures of all the new items, like Chrissa’s collection (cute swim suit, kickboard, sundress, pet llama!!), Kit’s reporter dress, new Bitty Baby items, and the new pets. Below are the scans that a member at AGFMB made and gave me permission to post [...]

Picture of Chrissa American Girl of the Year 2009

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Pin itANOTHER UPDATE!  The rumors are true – not only will there be Chrissa the Girl of the Year for 2009, American Girl is releasing two best friends dolls with her – Gwen (blonde) and Sonali (dark hair). The dolls are being released January 1, 2009.