How American Girl Books Helped My Kids Love Reading and History

American Girl books have been a great strategy for nurturing a love of reading and history in my children! Plus we've had some fun DIY ing clothes and ...

How the American Girls Series Shaped My Reading - Book Riot

A reader on discovering the American Girls series based on the dolls, and what those books taught her about history, imagination, and more.

Why I Love American Girl Books - For the Love of Stories

I grew up reading American Girl books from a young age. The historical fiction stories were my favorites (and what I'm going to be focusing ...

Why I'm Reading the Original “American Girl” Books to My Sons

Identifying with the peaks and valleys in these heroines' personal stories and their character development as they grow up teaches young readers ...

does anyone read the American girl books? : r/americangirl - Reddit

The one thing that I notice more when re-reading them is that the fathers are much kinder towards the kids than most historical accounts I've ...

American Girl History Review - Little School of Smiths

My ultimate goal in creating the American Girl History curriculum is to help children fall in love with history.

Girls Like Us: Looking at History through the American Girl Series

Although boys in the class enjoyed the reading of American Girl books, for ... American Girl books helped students see commonalities with girls living ...

American Girl books - Simply Charlotte Mason

I don't mind my girls reading on their own time the AG books. I like the way the history is tied to each doll and it's such a better choice than ...

How old were your daughters when you first introduced the ...

They make very engaging reading for the younger set. The history in them is fairly on target. The big standout in inaccuracy involves the girl's ...

All the history I learned in my youth came from the American Girl doll ...

There was something special about learning history this way—from the perspective of these girls. Even the bizarrely consumerist aspect of ...

What we're reading: American Girl books - The Washington Post

The American Girl books, while not based on true stories, give my daughter a similar window into many eras in American history. The spunky ...

A girl's window into history - USPTO

With more than 160 million books sold since 1986, the characters Rowland created continue to help children explore American history using ...

Teaching History with the American Girl Series - The Simple Pen

What a genius idea! I remember I did learn probably more about history that I remembered by just reading the American Girl books than what I ...

American Girl and other great books for history-loving kids - Aleteia

They feature great moral lessons that help my kids think through how to handle various tricky situations with courage and character, opening the ...

More Than Toys: Exploring History With American Girl - Book Riot

Each girl's books detailed her life, peppered with lessons on friendship, leadership, and courage. An American Girl doll was the it Christmas ...

American Girls - Redeemed Reader

The American Girls books are in some ways the premier girls' reading series for girls who are emerging readers. Among conservative families ...

Adventures In Parenting As A Historian: The American Girl Books

In 1986 a former school teacher and children's book author named Pleasant Rowland launched a new line of dolls, each representing a nine-year ...

Why American Girl has been a perfect fit for this creative writing ...

Julie was an ideal muse for Reiss, and not just because they both call the Bay Area home. American Girl books writ large bring together elements ...

American Historian, Meet American Girl

When the books arrived at my office, I wondered if my jaded, critical lens on children's culture and my commitment to feminist history could ...

How to Use American Girl to Study History - Education Possible

The original dolls were historical characters, each one focusing on a different period of history. They shared their stories through accompanying books, which ...