{"id":316,"date":"2016-07-18T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/18\/a-girl-and-her-doll-with-few-books\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T02:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:42:41","slug":"a-girl-and-her-doll-with-few-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/18\/a-girl-and-her-doll-with-few-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A Girl And Her Doll (With A Few Books)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We took our daughter to the American Girl store this weekend. \u00a0We have been promising to go for about five million years and something always comes up. \u00a0This time we actually made it. \u00a0The picture isn’t that great because it was so sunny I couldn’t see the screen so I just aimed my phone in the right general direction and this is what I ended up with. She looks happy, doesn’t she?<\/p>\n

If you have never been to the American Girl store then just imagine two floors of dolls and clothes and accessories. \u00a0Add in a cafe, a doll hair salon, and many, many fathers standing on the edges of the store with the slightly long-suffering look of men who are being good fathers but who don’t quite know how they ended up in this world of girl stuff and who are, sometimes unsuccessfully, resisting the urge to pull out their phones and escape for a bit.<\/p>\n

My daughter loves it. \u00a0She is not a super girly type girl but there is something about these dolls that just really appeals to her. \u00a0I think it is that the dolls are girls, not babies, and you can buy clothes and accessories to fit your interests. \u00a0So my daughter has a pet for her doll (yes, really) and sports outfits for her, and clothes she would wear herself. \u00a0There are also historical character dolls with books to go along with them but my daughter doesn’t have one of those. \u00a0I have picked up many of the books at thrift shops though.<\/p>\n

I like it because it is nice to see girls being little girls and not trying to be grown-ups. \u00a0There were lots of girls of widely varying ages, many of them older than my daughter. \u00a0They were all wildly excited and just being their age. \u00a0I like kids to be kids. \u00a0Of course, it is ridiculously expensive but we don’t go very often so we will have time to pay off that second mortgage.<\/p>\n

Something I find interesting is that my daughter tends to tie her reading into whatever she has been doing lately. \u00a0So when we went to the zoo last month she spent a week or so reading Thornton Burgess books and other animal stories. \u00a0This week she is reading books that involve dolls in the story. \u00a0First, she pulled out A Little Princess<\/i> by Frances Hodgson Burnett but she has read it so many times she practically has it memorized. \u00a0Then she read the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories by Johnny Gruelle. \u00a0I loved those when I was little. \u00a0The idea of dolls having their own lives when people weren’t around was thrilling to me. \u00a0For a long time, I was convinced my dolls came to life and had adventures when I was out of the house and I would always check to see if they were in different positions when I got home. \u00a0Next, she read The Racketty-Packetty House<\/i> by Frances Hodgson Burnett. \u00a0It is the story of two dollhouses and the dolls who live in them. \u00a0I never read it as a child but I found it for free on my Kindle and my daughter has loved it since she was tiny and I first read it to her. \u00a0Right now she is reading Miss Happiness and Miss Flower<\/i> by Rumer Godden. \u00a0It is the story of a lonely little girl and the two little Japanese dolls that are sent to her as a gift. \u00a0The girl decides to make a Japanese house for them and in the process, learns to be happy again herself. \u00a0I read it as a child but only remember it vaguely. \u00a0I am going to have to read it when she is done.<\/p>\n

She finished Miss Happiness and Miss Flower\u00a0<\/i>while I was writing this. \u00a0She has requested that we go to the library tomorrow because she thought of another book, Two Are Better Than One<\/i> by Carol Ryrie Brink. \u00a0I believe there are two pocket-sized dolls in the story and the best friends pass them back and forth. \u00a0I don’t remember much more but I read that when I was young as well.<\/p>\n

Do you have any recommendations for books that involve dolls as a large part of the storyline? \u00a0I am running out of ideas and she keeps asking for more.<\/p>\n

Do you ever match your books to the activities in your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took our daughter to the American Girl store this weekend. \u00a0We have been promising to go for about five million years and something always comes up. \u00a0This time we actually made it. \u00a0The picture isn’t that great because it was so sunny I couldn’t see the screen so I just aimed my phone in the right general direction and this is what I ended up with. She looks happy, doesn’t she? If you have never been to the American Girl store then just imagine two floors of dolls and clothes and accessories. \u00a0Add in a cafe, a doll hair salon, and many, many fathers standing on the edges of the store with the slightly long-suffering look of men who are being good fathers but who don’t quite know how they ended up in this world of girl stuff and who are, sometimes unsuccessfully, resisting the urge to pull out their phones and escape for a bit. My daughter loves it. \u00a0She is not a super girly type girl but there is something about these dolls that just really appeals to her. \u00a0I think it is that the dolls are girls, not babies, and you can buy clothes and accessories to fit your interests. \u00a0So my daughter has a pet for her doll (yes, really) and sports outfits for her, and clothes she would wear herself. \u00a0There are also historical character dolls with books to go along with them but my daughter doesn’t have one of those. \u00a0I have picked up many of the books at thrift shops though. I like it because it is nice to see girls being little girls and not trying to be grown-ups. \u00a0There were lots of girls of widely varying ages, many of them older than my daughter. \u00a0They were all wildly excited and just being their age. \u00a0I like kids to be kids. \u00a0Of course, it is ridiculously expensive but we don’t go very often so we will have time to pay off that second mortgage. Something I find interesting is that my daughter tends to tie her reading into whatever she has been doing lately. \u00a0So when we went to the zoo last month she spent a week or so reading Thornton Burgess books and other animal stories. \u00a0This week she is reading books that involve dolls in the story. \u00a0First, she pulled out A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett but she has read it so many times she practically has it memorized. \u00a0Then she read the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories by Johnny Gruelle. \u00a0I loved those when I was little. \u00a0The idea of dolls having their own lives when people weren’t around was thrilling to me. \u00a0For a long time, I was convinced my dolls came to life and had adventures when I was out of the house and I would always check to see if they were in different positions when I got home. \u00a0Next, she read The Racketty-Packetty House by Frances Hodgson Burnett. \u00a0It is the story of two dollhouses and the dolls who live in them. \u00a0I never read it as a child but I found it for free on my Kindle and my daughter has loved it since she was tiny and I first read it to her. \u00a0Right now she is reading Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden. \u00a0It is the story of a lonely little girl and the two little Japanese dolls that are sent to her as a gift. \u00a0The girl decides to make a Japanese house for them and in the process, learns to be happy again herself. \u00a0I read it as a child but only remember it vaguely. \u00a0I am going to have to read it when she is done. She finished Miss Happiness and Miss Flower\u00a0while I was writing this. \u00a0She has requested that we go to the library tomorrow because she thought of another book, Two Are Better Than One by Carol Ryrie Brink. \u00a0I believe there are two pocket-sized dolls in the story and the best friends pass them back and forth. \u00a0I don’t remember much more but I read that when I was young as well. Do you have any recommendations for books that involve dolls as a large part of the storyline? \u00a0I am running out of ideas and she keeps asking for more. 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