Barbie has a call that she has been waiting for-from Lily fashions. she stops to get breakfast for her elderly neighbor but finds her very ill. Barbie goes to the hospital with the neighbor and misses her apt. with Lily Fashions. Everything turns out alright.

Everybody loves a mystery, especially Barbie. She's always hot on the trail of some exciting case.

This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.

A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.

This is a simple, but effective clock book format that helps young children learn to tell the time. They can read about a day in the life of Barbie and arrange the clock hands to the right position for each time reference in the text.

Beautiful boxed set of Barbie books features six titles, including "Very Busy Barbie, " "Barbie and the Scavenger Hunt, " "The Special Sleepover, " "Soccer Coach, " "In the Spotlight" and "The Jewel Thief." Color illustrations throughout.