News that the American Girl franchise has a "Smart Girls' Guide" for avoiding caring adults and leaving girlhood behind permanently has Christmas ... girl in a pink dress, or, that it’s part ...

The books all followed the same sequence—we meet each girl, she learns a lesson, celebrates Christmas ... leads with the My American Girl offerings, followed by “Dress Like Your Doll ...

The collection features both illustrations of classic American Girls (like Kirsten, Molly, and Josefina) and dresses and pajamas that subtly hearken back to the characters, like clothes in ...

Clothed in a rainbow dress with pink streaks in her hair ... grown in the young people of her generation, according to American Girl, a subsidiary of Mattel that has sold millions of dolls ...