Presents a collection of Raggedy Ann stories, including "Raggedy Ann Rescues Fido, " and "Raggedy Ann and the Kittens."

Jan's father surprises her with a doll that looks like her.

Barbie visits her friend, Nia, on a ranch where strange things have been happening.

Fanny asks for a Connie doll like those of her friends, and when her mother says no, Fanny tries to make one for herself.

When a young Tanzanian girl gets a new baby brother, she finds a rock, which she names Eva, and makes it her baby doll.

William's father gives him a basketball and a train but these do not make him want a doll less.

Hitty, a doll carved from mountain ash in the nineteenth century writes the story of her eventful life from the security of an antique-shop window. Her career, begun in a quiet Maine village, is crowded with adventures, and she gives lively doll's-eye glimpses of the widely differing places and people that she encounters during her hundred years, and of the manners and modes of her times.

An English girl loves her wooden Dutch doll so much that it comes to life.

Tippy Tumblelina teachers her friends ballet. Then the girls put on a show. Will they all be stars and remember all the steps?

"Holly Sleighbells wants to learn to ice-skate! But she's scared. Can her friend Swirly Figure Eight help her?"--Page [4] of cover.