#barbie books

[barbie-girlll]

new photos of margot robbie for the coffee table book "Barbie: The World Tour:

photo credits to @filesmargot on twitter/x

[bookishfreedom]

this barbie has learned to love the color pink 🩷

[beary-good-finds]

💙 Image 1 - Best Friends Barbie Golden Book, 1996

❤️ Image 2 - Dance, Ballerina Barbie Golden Book, 1995

[luckydiorxoxo]

Sneak peek!

[barbienostalgia]

[theguythatcollectsdolls]

Barbie - By Suzan Shapiro

Available 1st November

[picturebookshelf]

Barbie: School Days (2004)

Story: Apple Jordan -- Art: Karen Wolcott

[cyber-shifftt]

Barbie Princess Tales The Essential Guide book. @moviebooksandbarbies via Tik Tok.

[barbielore]

I have made a couple of posts in the past that refer to Barbies who are depicted as having disabilities, including the original 3 Becky dolls, the first doll in the Barbie line to be depicted using a wheelchair.

To go a little deeper on Becky, though, she was released specifically between 1997 and 1999. Her first appearance as "Share a Smile Becky" was not the only doll in the "Share a Smile" line - this line also came with Barbie and Christie, though they did not use wheelchairs.

Becky was the standout of the line, both in terms of marketing and sales - Share a Smile Becky sold a reported 6000 dolls in two weeks. I don't know exactly how this stacks up in raw numbers to other Barbie line dolls but it's quite impressive.

Becky's next appearance was as "I'm the School Photographer" Becky, where she is apparently an award winner for photographing the basketball team. She is depicted on the box with the Colour Streak Barbie line from the year prior, an articulated doll line with mascara-esque wands to put coloured streaks in their hair.

I'm not particularly sure why they marketed School Photographer Becky in relation to the Colour Streak line, as opposed to as part of a school or even athletics related line. Or for that matter, if you're going to market a Becky in this line, why not give her a Colour Streak doll? We could have had Raucous Red or Mellow Yellow Becky.

Her third and final appearance was as Paralympic Champion Becky, released in 1999 as a prelude to the Sydney Olympic Games. The equivalent Barbie in the line was Swimming Champion Barbie, who could "swim" backstroke or freestyle in water.

Teresa and Christie were also released as Swimming Champions this same year, as well as a variety of other Olympic tie-ins such as fans and, for some reason, a pin collector.

I think my biggest quibble with Paralympic Champion Becky personally is that the other athlete dolls (the Swimming Champions) have a name that refers to their event, rather than the games as a whole. Perhaps Becky should have been marketed as Racer Becky or something.

Of course, the doll was designed to educate children on the Paralympic Games, but I feel they could have done a little better in that regard.

Interestingly - some articles about Becky cite there being a fourth Becky doll, one who used sign language. As far as I can tell this is a misattribution of Sign Language Barbie.

Personally I find this one fascinating because, in addition to coming with instructions for some signs including the alphabet, she has a custom arm, with the hand molded in the shape of the sign for "I Love You".

Becky's other main appearance that I find notable is in the Barbie book "Three Cheers for Becky", in which Becky coaches the cheerleading squad.

A lot of Becky's appearances around this time carry a hint of condescension. It appears as though Mattel was genuinely trying, but fell into some tropes of Becky as an inspirational figure with few personality traits outside of being Barbie's Friend Who Uses A Wheelchair. Some of these things could be relatively easily sidestepped by Mattel - I don't object to Becky as a Paralympian in the lead-up to an Olympic year, but why not give Becky the opportunity to have regular fashion dolls too?

Oh, and let her actually fit in the Dreamhouse. That would have been good too.

[delicatemystic]

Barbie Fun Fact

Easter eggs in Princess Charm School book

On this page of the book you can see several easter eggs from other Barbie movies, and I will list these references for you.

- Melody's Mirror (Diamond Castle)

- Alexa's necklace (Diamond Castle)

- Renne's mask (Three Musketeers)

- Prince Louis Crown (Three Musketeers)

- The ice jewel (Magic of Pegasus)

- Rapunzel's brush (Rapunzel)

The others are just repeated, random items or their crowns.

[barbie-girlll]

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper book and cassette set

[bookishfreedom]

this barbie is a woman in STEM 👩‍💻🩷

[modaallastracciatella]

Adventures with Barbie Books 💗

1992✨

[thatwritererinoriordan]

[barbienostalgia]

[barbie-edits]

My family: let's do a book exchange for Christmas this year

My book wishlist: