Kirsten is an American Girl doll. She also is an icon for many Minnesota girls who grew up with the American Girl line of dolls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with its catalogs and books ...

American Girl Doll fanatics have called out the company for a shocking mistake they made while trying to honor a Swedish tradition. The iconic toy company shared a video of their Kirsten Larson ...

that I noticed a perfect 6.5-inch replica of Kirsten and did a double take. For about one fifth of the price of a full-size 18-inch American Girl doll (which typically costs between $115 and $135 ...

American Girl dolls were the center of my elementary school life. I remember owning two, both the ‘make your own’ dolls. I named them both after Francis Hogden Burnett’s characters: Emily, after the ...

Also available this year is the American Girl ... eight historical doll costumes. Courtesy American Girl Fans can choose from eight characters: 1854's frontier girl Kirsten, 1934's Kit Kittredge ...

With original prices that meant they should have come with a brick of gold alongside the collectible toys, vintage American Girl dolls continue to rake in hundreds to thousands of dollars every year.

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American Girl will also reissue Kirsten, Addy, and Josefina’s original birthday party dresses and accompanying Happy Birthday books, which will be available for the first time for each doll ...

The inaugural American Girl dolls did something novel for a children’s toy: they taught U.S. history. One doll, Kirsten, was a Swedish immigrant whose family settled in Minnesota Territory in ...

as Life magazine put it in a cover story featuring a girl hugging a Kirsten doll, “Move Over, Barbie.” (That she’d eventually sell American Girl to Mattel, the manufacturers of Barbie ...

Molly McIntire, Samantha Parkington, and Kirsten Larson were the first three American Girl dolls that were released back in 1986. It’s no surprise that these dolls are pretty valuable today.

"Growing up, my sister and I were American Girl girls. I had Kirsten, and she had Molly," Anderson Beer said in the Wednesday announcement. "They didn't feel like dolls to play with, rather real ...