Michele Cotner has a lot of small friends in her home — more than 100 of them. Luckily, they are quiet and don’t run around. Last week, she brought many of them to the meeting of Brunswick Art Works ...

Ask Sherryl Shirran how many doll she owns and she can’t tell you exactly. Somewhere past 1,000, she figures. “I have too many dolls to count.” The Anaheim home that Shirran, 75, shares with her ...

While other kids his age were mowing lawns for extra cash, then-14-year-old Marshall Martin was reassembling antique dolls and selling them through newspaper ads. “Even as a little boy I was a ...

Rosemary Deal played with dolls from an early age. That’s in contrast to her sister, Linda Holderbaum, who preferred to play with traditional boy toys. But now the two Battle Creek residents have a ...

Plastic Barbies didn't get an invitation. Madame Alexander collectibles have no business here. Cabbage Patch Kids will go orphaned another week. The approximately 150 conventioneers at the National ...

Debbie Behan Garrett has collected black dolls for 20 years. She is the author of "The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls," "Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting and ...

Director Maureen Judge takes a look at the sometimes weird, sometimes artful and sometimes sad subculture of doll collecting in the documentary Living Dolls. Many of us abandon our dolls, boxing up ...

Barbie collectors, some of whom have been die-hard fans since the 1960s, are watching a Barbie superbloom. And most couldn’t be happier for their girl. At the National Barbie Doll Collectors ...

Shirley Temple. Betsy McCall. Madame Alexander. Betsy Wetsy. Raggedy Ann and Andy. Kewpie. Barbie. To some, these doll names just evoke fond memories of childhood playtime. To members of the ...

NEWS EIGHT’S MEREDITH JORGENSEN BRINGS IT TO US. IT’S BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS, DOLLS. THEY’RE REALLY CUTE. PLANNERS OF THE BIG BOOK SALE SAY THESE DOLLS HAVE A LIBRARY CONNECTION. THOUGH 125 DOLLS WERE ...