American Girl Blog

For those of you who come to this site and don’t know what American girl, this is the place to go.

American girl is a company, owned by Mattel, who also owns Barbie, Fisher Price, and Hot Wheels, that sells dolls and all sorts of clothing for the dolls.

Historical dolls: This term is used quite often and when you are reading a post it is important for you to know what everything means. Historical dolls are a line of dolls each of whom live in a different era in America, starting from the Native Americans and ending with the 70’s. Each doll has her own story, name, books, and clothing to go with the time period in which they are in.

Today dolls: Another type of doll American girl produces are the Today dolls. Today dolls are a line of dolls mostly opposite from today dolls. For example if you get a Today doll you get to name it, it doesn’t have clothing of its own, there are many different outfits that are for all the Today dolls, and they are in our time period.

Girl of the Year dolls, GOTY: Another line of dolls that American girl has been recently carrying are the Girl of the Year doll, also known as GOTY. The GOTY dolls are a mix of Today dolls and Historical dolls, the doll has her own name, story, and clothes, but are in the today world. American girl started carrying these dolls in 2002. The first GOTY doll was Lindsey, followed by Kailey, Marisol, Jess, Nicki, and in 2008 Mia.

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Hope you enjoy this blog even more now that you know what everything is!