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Today on House Guest, I'm joined by Amanda FitzSimons, author of an American Girl, for our House Guest Book Club recap. We get into everything you didn't know about American Girl: Pleasant Rowland and how Pleasant Company started, the Samantha penny, The Care and Keeping of You, Addy, the 2009 doll Gwen, the Mattel sale, and Pleasant's next era with MacKenzie-Childs.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome to House Guest Book Club
4:00 How a Bustle story turned into a book
7:05 Which American Girl dolls we had
10:15 The genius of the American Girl catalog
14:15 From magazine piece to book deal
15:45 Pleasant Rowland and the start of Pleasant Company
19:45 "I'm in the little girl business"
23:40 What Pleasant knew about 9-year-old girls
26:50 The Samantha penny and other surprises
31:35 Why Pleasant doesn't do interviews
34:00 The Care and Keeping of You
41:05 The Addy story
49:00 Gwen, the 2009 doll nobody remembers
56:05 The Mattel sale
63:10 How the dolls changed after Mattel
67:10 American Girl stores, licensing and collabs
71:05 Pleasant leaves and her next chapter in Aurora
74:15 Pleasant and MacKenzie-Childs
77:25 Where to find Amanda
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