CHICAGO - An American Girl holiday catalog released last month featured a 4-year-old girl with Down syndrome from Illinois, displaying pictures that her mother said starts an important conversation ...

"She's adorable and great to work with, and the shots we captured with her for our holiday catalogues are beautiful," a spokeswoman for American Girl tells PEOPLE Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on ...

Pretty much every kid in the ‘90s wanted an American Girl doll. That’s an established fact. But there were also plenty of things in the American Girl catalog we wanted as kids in the ‘90s that went ...

Pleasant T. Rowland aimed to make heirlooms when she created American Girls after an aha moment in Colonial Williamsburg. The former elementary school teacher and textbook author was 45, and she ...

Kristin Kimble is one proud and "shocked" mom. Her 4-year-old daughter Ivy, who has Down syndrome, is making headlines all over the world for her photos in American Girl's October holiday catalog. But ...

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl opened nationwide in theaters this week. The movie, which tells the story of a girl growing up during the Great Depression, is the first big-screen film based on the ...

American Girl's "BeForever" dolls represent different historical periods. Companion books don't sugarcoat history. At American Girl Place in New York, you can have afternoon tea with your doll. The ...

I spend a lot of time hanging out with one of my best friends, Bella. We know each other from high school, and we share a lot of touchstones from growing up in New York City’s private school system.

Costco has a knack for identifying those costly items Americans desperately want, whether big-screen television sets or designer purses, and selling them at tantalizingly low prices. Now, just in time ...

Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made friends with a Dakota girl, stole animal pelts from a dead fur trapper, ...

When I once mentioned to a friend that my girls were going to a summer day camp based around American Girl dolls and asked if her daughters wanted to join, she laughed. “Wouldn’t that mean they would ...