I haven’t written about Raggedy Ann for several years, but hers is an interesting tale. The story goes that Raggedy Ann began as a faceless rag doll found by a little girl named Marcella in her ...

I was shocked to discover that my granddaughters, ages 13, 11 and 9, have no idea about the Raggedy Ann doll. Her name was in a story that one of them was reading, and she asked about the doll. I must ...

Johnny Gruelle found an ordinary rag doll in his parents' attic that sparked his creative juices, later becoming the inspiration for many stories to cheer his ailing daughter. In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A ...

Fabric dolls are a direct descendant of the homemade rag doll, and no doll typifies the American image better than the red, white and blue smiling faces of Raggedy Ann and Andy. No one really knows ...