This book features all the different versions of the Ideal Doll Corporation's Tammy and her 'doll family'. These charming dolls from the 1960s include Tammy, Pepper, Mom, Dad, Ted, Bud, Salty, Pete, Patti, Misty, and Dodi. Each doll is pictured in many different original costumes, with charts and photographs of extra fashions and accessories. Special chapters depict all the other Tammy toys, paper dolls, books, games, and other collectibles plus a study of the Tammy-type dolls that followed her success. A price guide provides the values of all the identified Tammy collectibles. With 128 pages and 250 photographs, this is the identification and price source for collectors.

"My Grandma’s Doll” is a story about a loving relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. It’s about sharing and listening to each other. One day Grandma tells Tammy a story about getting her first doll and how it disappeared. What happens next is for you to discover.

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.

This Ideal Tammy collector's guide features over 1,000 color photos of seldom-seen Ideal Tammy dolls and accessories made for the U.S. and foreign markets. Just some of the features of this book include Tammy dolls and clothing made for the Japanese market, Tammy's Brazilian counterpart Estrela Susi, and rare Hong Kong dolls and clothing. Tammy imitators and competitors can also be found in this guide, including the hard-to-find Fab-Lu Randy. This jammed-packed, informational reference guide is a must-have for Tammy and other fashion doll collectors. 263 pages, soft cover.

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post best nonfiction book of 2023 | Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction “A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book.” —Robert Kolker, The Washington Post “[A] moving and superbly reported book.” —Jessica Winter, The New Yorker “A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] foster care system . . . We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | One of Publishers Weekly's best nonfiction books of 2023 The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and a searing indictment of the American foster care system. On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family’s loving facade was an alleged pattern of abuse and neglect that had been ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved west. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew all too little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children. Immersive journalism of the highest order, Roxanna Asgarian’s We Were Once a Family is a revelation of precarious lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian sought out the children’s birth families and put them at the center of the story. We follow the lives of the Harts’ adopted children and their birth parents, and the machinations of the state agency that sent the children far away. Asgarian’s reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as young people of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.

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