American Girl dolls

    By Christina Fierro

    | 4:00PM 10/09/2010
    Holiday shopping season has begun, and the hottest toy lists are out, but some toys remain relevant season after season. Standing 18-inches tall, the American Girl doll towers over her competition with more than 18 million dolls sold since the company was founded in 1986 and raking in $436 million...

    By Julie Tilsner

    | 5:00PM 9/29/2009
    Reading the headlines about the "homeless doll" by American Girl, I was as struck as anyone else. Imagine: $95 for a homeless doll. But after digging around on the American Girl site I decided it wasn't such a stupid idea after all. American Girl dolls are well-made and correspondingly pricey...