This is a post I have been working on for a few weeks, as I have begun to collect books that have to do with dolls and also with Barbie. In my collecting, I came across a set of books for young girls with photos and vocabulary lists ages 6-13 with wonderful, diorama photos of Barbie and friends from the 1990's called Barbie and Friends book club books.
These books were hardcover, and apparently you signed up for the books by a monthly subscription, as best I can figure out. There is not much information out there now . Grolier Books did the publishing with about 5 authors. There were about 36 or 37 books altogether.
You can purchase the books on the secondary market in lots, on Ebay, Mercari, Poshmark, or other thriftbook sites like Amazon, Better World Books, and so on. I have been getting mine on Paperbackswap.com which I belong to and is a site where you can list unwanted books, and when someone shops your bookshelf, you receive a credit when you mail out the book. With those credits you can shop for a book you want. I have been able to acquire many of my Barbie book club books this way as well as shopping for them on Ebay.
So far, here are the ones I have acquired in my collection-
7- Barbie- The Peasant and the Princess
19- A Voyage to Rados
27- Barbie A Place Called Home
30- Barbie- Skipping A Beat
34- Barbie: A Stitch In Time
So far these are the books I have in my collection and I have three more coming to me. I find them enchanting with the photos and the storyline, and enjoy reading them, as they are cleverly written and the dioramas are also well done. I would love to replicate some of the dioramas myself. It has inspired another aspect of my collecting/ and 'playing' with my dolls that I miss.
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