Molly's Christmas Dilemma

• Author: Jaffe, Susannah
• Subjects: Children & youth ; Culture ; Jewish people ; Life ; Lifetime ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Teenagers ; Young adults
• Is Part Of: Lilith (New York), 1999-09, Vol.24 (3), p.27
• Description: For about three years of my childhood, I, like many other girls of my generation, fell in love with an American Girls doll. I didn't just identify with [Molly]; I felt that we were one and the same. Molly and I both have similarly colored, sometimes braided hair; the same eyes, corrected by the same glasses. Molly was the most down-to-earth of the American Girls. Samantha spent her time at tea parties, cross-stitching and learning etiquette in school. Not Molly! She went to sleep-away camp and played practical jokes on her brother. Other dolls came with a butterfly catcher, a watercress sandwich, a mock fur muff; Molly, whose historical moment was 1944, came with a newspaper from D-Day, a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, and steel penny. She also gave up many of her possessions for the war effort. The choice was obvious.
  
• Publisher: New York: Lilith
  
• Language: English
  
• Identifier: ISSN: 0146-2334