The Live Doll Series

The following books are contained in the four volume set: The Story of Live Dolls, More About Live Dolls, The Live Dolls' House Party, The Live Dolls' Busy Days, The Live Dolls' Play Days, The Live Dolls' Party Days, The Live Dolls' In Fairy-land, The Live Dolls' in Wonderland, The Secret of the Live Dolls

When Cindy Jackson was a child growing up in the Deep South, she saw her first Barbie Doll and fell in love with it. As a young singer in a well-known rock bacnd, she was a plain young woman. Bright, bubbly and vivicious, she felt that something was missing from her life, something that derived from insecurities that had been with her from childhood. She was unhappy with the way she looked. And so she set out to do something about. Cindy was to spend tens of thousands of pounds transforming herself into a living Barbie Doll. This is her story of her metamorphosis.

The reader is invited to solve a mystery with Scooby-Doo and friends and find Bananas, the electronic monkey, stolen at the National Toy Convention, in New York City.

Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.

Zelda is staying at her late grandmother's house when she rediscovers the doll she was given. It's old-fashioned and frayed, and Zelda doesn't think much of it. Until she realizes the doll is alive and is looking for revenge...

I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.

A lonely doll named Edith finally finds friendship with two visiting teddy bears.

A very popular writer of childrens' books, Josephine Scribner Gates had written 23 books. She is known especially for her "Live Dolls" series. The doll theme developed the idea of dolls who came to life and behaved much the same as the children who played with them. She skillfully blended stories of fantasy with lessons in behavior. Josephine had one daughter, who most likely furnished the inspiration for many of the books. The book is a bestseller and has been published in several editions.

When Claudine's family receives in the mail a beautiful old French doll that has been in the family for generations, no one anticipates its malevolent intentions.