By exploring and comparing everyday objects and rituals, this series helps young readers understand the similarities and differences that exist among societies. These visually appealing and multicultural books are uniquely informative and fun, too. Includes index.Dolls are miniature versions of who we are. What kind of personality do they have? What might they be used for? Explore the similarities and differences among dolls from all over the world.

Sabrina and friends are invited to a huge party, but Roxie refuses to go without a date, so Sabrina finds a man for her--boxed up on a shelf in the local toy store.

This is a book for doll lovers everywhere. Children have enjoyed dolls for thousands of years. Dolls have been found in ancient Egypt and Greece. Some were made of cloth and wood long before the porcelain dolls of recent centuries and the composite materials of todays dolls. Dolls have a unique ability to inspire a child and the child in each of us. In A Book of Dolls, over sixty photographs of dolls are each accompanied by a poem about each doll. What would a doll say if it could speak? Find out in this delightful book.

Toying with affections It's Halloween -- a witch's favorite holiday -- and Sabrina and her friends have been invited to a major blow-out. The only problem is Roxie doesn't have a date, and she refuses to go to another party solo. While cruising past a toy store, Sabrina gets an idea....Sabrina buys Hang Ten Kurt, everyone's favorite plastic hunk, and zaps him to life. It's love at first sight for Roxie. He's just her type -- strong and silent. But Kurt's definitely not ready for the real world, and Sabrina's got to find a way to shrink him down to size before Roxie finds out the truth...and gets crushed by her crush.

Updated to include the 1990s, this landmark edition of the ultimate Barbie photo shoot presents the full range of this trendsetting doll's nineties wardrobe, in addition to highlights from 1959 through 1989. 276 color illustrations.

Learn about different dolls from cultures all around the world. Welcome to Reading provides leveled reading practice to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. Each book is colorfully illustrated and features a fun story starring Trek the Scarecrow and his friends Lizzy and Sam.

When Emmy Spencer and Lizzy Draper start seventh grade they drift apart, until Emmy finds a voodoo doll that can put her in control of Lizzy's every move.

From Preface: "This publication challenges the prevailing opinion among scholars of African art that the word doll is an inappropriate designation for many genres of African art to which it is often applied. The word, it seems, evokes a limited set of images that are incompatible with the stereotype of African sculpture as objects laden with ritual and religious associations, associations which to many minds preclude any consideration of play as part of their existence. Our basic premise for this volume is that the problem is not the application of doll to African contexts but rather a profound misunderstanding of what a doll is. Playing with dolls, we argue, is serious business, and we in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world probably take ours too lightly. While the average parent views these figures as relatively inconsequential objects, it is becoming increasingly clear to social scientists that they can be active in establishing value systems and constructing identities...."

Dolls have a unique place in childhood. They are about play, empathy, and developing communication and socialization skills. Dolls are important symbols to children of what adults value, and handmade dolls convey that the individual is important and that to be unique—less than perfect—is just fine. These concepts guide award-winning children's author Laurie Carlson's Doll Crafts, which opens up the world of doll making to children. The emphasis is on following basic instructions that are clearly illustrated with line drawings in order to help children develop creative, open-ended projects that result in unique dolls and doll play. Using inexpensive, everyday, or even recycled materials, children make clever paper dolls, simple folk art dolls, soft cuddle pals, or 18-inch felt dolls as well as cute and easy doll clothing, accessories, and basic houses. Short, informative sidebars throughout explore dolls in various cultures and religions, relate doll trivia and fun facts, and expand readers' ideas about what constitutes a doll by examining the history of action figures, scarecrows, robots, and more.