American Girl Character Encyclopedia New Edition

by D.K. Publishing

A new edition of the American Girl® Character Encyclopedia, featuring all the American Girl characters, updated with brand-new photography of new outfits, accessories, sets, and pets—and six new characters .

A gorgeous guide to the wonderful world of American Girl®, featuring all the characters and brought up-to-date with new photography and facts

Learn all about the lovable American Girl characters—from Kaya who was born in the 1750s, to the latest Girl of the Year™. This new edition of the book features all of the Historical Characters and Girl of the Year™ characters released to date, and includes their favorite things, outfits, places, and pets. Packed with fascinating facts and details about each American Girl, readers can explore favorite characters and discover new ones. The book also includes a look at some of the popular Truly Me™ characters and collections. With stunning, up-to-date full-color photography and essential information about each character, this book provides a carefully curated look at the world of American Girl, perfect for fans of all ages.

© Mattel, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens

208 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2021

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Meghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Almost exactly identical to the previous one, but with a few additional characters. The mix of original and Beforever collection items for older characters was a bit random and I wish there had been more of the original items. Like previously, later sections tended to get redundant.

[Tiffinie Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was VERY fun but my god those historical girls were going THROUGH IT. Like what do you mean she had polio?!?

[Eliza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes I did read this front to back. So yes I am going to be rating it like all my other reads 🤓

4/5 It was cute but felt like it over simplified some of the struggles these characters went through. Like I know it’s just giving us a brief overview of each character. But like some of these American Girl Dolls went THROUGH it.

Don’t tell me Kirsten’s story struggle was learning how to live on the prairie - KIRSTEN WATCHED HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND DIE OF DYSENTERY. But anyways I digress, I love American Girl lol.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book! I would've liked some more information here and there but it did include more characters than I expected. The biggest problem with this books is that it makes me want more dolls hahahaa

[Kayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really don’t like how they are trying to change all of the “Historical” American Girls’ stories, outfits, and backgrounds. It was disappointing to see so much omitted. Cute enough, but I would much prefer flipping through an old American Girl catalogue or magazine, by far.
It also got a bit redundant. Also, nobody really likes the BeForever dolls as much as the originals, so it was odd that they mixed them together and made them just as significant in content and pages as the historical girls.

[Graycen K · Rating 4 out of 5]

how are you going to call this an encyclopedia and not include so many original outfits and accessories ?? the random mixture of classic and be-forever reboot dolls is criminal. wish they would've had one side with the classic and the other side with the be-forever refresh it would make more sense and would be really helpful to everyone actually trying to use this book for research purposes. i still love it though :D

[Sophia Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so glad we finally got an updated encyclopedia! I really do love this book, and I pore over it for hours in end, staring at the pictures and illustrations. I do wish they had kept the hobbies section though.

[🐦‍⬛ · Rating 3 out of 5]

if i won the lottery i wouldnt tell anyone……but there would be signs 🤔


also very funny to me that there are personality profiles in this book dedicated to american girl pets.
the dolls are book characters so that makes sense to me……but why would i care what a toy rabbit’s favorite snack is

[Jessica Arend · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75

[Sunny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got it in 2023, it says "new edition", but it only goes up to 2021

[Chloe A · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super cute but seeing the beforever outfits in place of the originals kinda made my eyes burn

[Charlie - disableddaydreamer | itsbarbieparis (looking for mutuals) · Rating 4 out of 5]

low key my american girl hyperfixation turnign special interest is healing something in me