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Renee Rosen
Expected publication date: January 21, 2025
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.
In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.
As Ruth assembles her team of creative rebels—head engineer Jack Ryan who hides his deepest secrets behind his genius and designers Charlotte Johnson and Stevie Klein, whose hopes and dreams rest on the success of Barbie’s fashion—she knows they’re working against a ticking clock to get this wild idea off the ground.
In the decades to come—through soaring heights and devastating personal lows, public scandals and private tensions— each of them will have to decide how tightly to hold on to their creation. Because Barbie has never been just a doll—she’s a legacy. - from Goodreads
You know, the cover there is just what my first Barbie looked like. She had that black and white striped strapless bathing suit and wore those tiny, tiny high heels (with the bathing suit - ha!). Is this book based on the actual story of how Barbie came about? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteGreat pick! I enjoyed Rosen's Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl and Social Graces.
ReplyDeleteSounds great! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI loved my Barbie - in fact, I still possess her and all the clothes that were bought for her in the early to mid-60s and she's been played with by my youngest sister, my daughter and my granddaughter...
ReplyDeleteThis has got to be quite the interesting read. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI was such a Barbie fan. I had HUGE collection. Still have the Bob Mackie and Van Gough ones.
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