My daughter had one. They also have some rather cool furniture available, things like school desks. And yes, they are very well made.
The books are similar for each character, being set at different seasons. They all had pretty good messages - I got to read the entire set to her.
There is an American Girls store in New York - we didn’t go since now my daughter is a bit old for them (or a bit young 
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I saved up for a year to buy my daughter **dragonblink **an American Girls Samantha doll, when I was working part time for $5/hr. Never did manage to buy the Cabbage Patch doll, though, unless you count the one I bought for myself for a buck at the thrift store about five years ago. 
My daughter’s brilliant and amazing and talented and exactly the kinda woman that would give Wildmon & Co. a giant case of the dry heaves, so there must be something to those American Girl dolls. (She still has Samantha, too.)
Wildmon, the man and his organization. Basically just another American mullah.
I’d get one for Fang. Right now, though, it’s all about the choo-choo trains.
Oh no. Those get you in trouble with the Treasury department.
Okay, I give up. What’s a “Fur Baby”?
You know those people who treat their lapdogs like they are their kids? Well, I he ard them using the term for their wriggling little sack of fur.
American Girl has been very good to my family. My cousin’s husband works for them, and last May my cousin nearly died during childbirth from an amniotic fluid embolism. She spent weeks in a coma and then a semi-conscious state, had to have a complete hysterectomy, suffered some paralysis and about a year’s worth of memory loss. Sadly, their son didn’t make it. She’s well on the road to an almost full recovery, in spite of the fact that AFE has up to an 86% mortality rate, 50% of sufferers die within the first hour of onset, and most others either die shortly thereafter, are in persistant vegitative states for life, or suffer permanent neurological damage. American Girl was extraordinarily supportive of Gary during the entire ordeal during her hospital stay, and set up and administered a fund for the family, to help with both short and long-term needs as Anita goes through a long recovery and therapy process while trying to raise two little girls. American Girl Rocks!
You may want to consider assisting them in developing a crack habit instead.
Trust me, you will save money in the long run.
Regards,
Shodan
Oh, you’re just trying to impose those traditional conservative moral values on the rest of us again, aren’t you? 
Oooo.
Where do you get those?
oh.
Nevermind.
Tris
I’m right here, Tris,
Your Wiccan sis.
I ain’t no boy,
I ain’t no toy.
It’s term used by some people who view their pets as children. I don’t have a problem with the attitude (I have problem attitudes of my own after all) but the phrase itself makes me gag. Or it did until I heard the phrase “womb babies.”
But I came here to mention that the story about conservative protests has made the top story rotation in My Yahoo’s start page. It links to this AP storyabout the umbrage and an accompanying ABC video. So the story’s starting to get some play.
Personally, I consider the Pleasant company to be the best example of forward thinking marketing of our time. I have no doubt that they know their target market and are not surprised by this turn of events. But with American Girls being owned by Mattel now I’m not sure how this will work out.
Oh, I love how the new ads at the bottom of the screen are all for American Girl or similar products. Now that’s product placement at its very, very best!
Click away, click away, click away all!
The Willow & Tara action figure set.
Maybe the very short-lived Wiccan Barbies (“Spell Sisters”)
Btw, I’ve long-ignored Rev. Wildmon’s boycott-calls & would probably ignore this one if I were inclined to buy AG dolls. That said, if I had daughters involved in a local Girls Inc., I’d make sure the local leaders weren’t advocating “reproductive freedom” or diversity in “sexual orientation”.
How exactly would you do that?
And short of taking your kids out of and girls Inc. programmes, what business is it of yours to stop parents who agree with the message girls Inc. provide sending their kids there?
OK. let me clarify- if hypothetical local leaders were advocating those things in the local Girls Inc, I would not let my hypothetical daughters be involved. Parents who agree with those things can feel free to do so.