Let’s Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.
In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.
As Ruth assembles her team of creative rebels—head engineer Jack Ryan who hides his deepest secrets behind his genius and designers Charlotte Johnson and Stevie Klein, whose hopes and dreams rest on the success of Barbie’s fashion—she knows they’re working against a ticking clock to get this wild idea off the ground.
In the decades to come—through soaring heights and devastating personal lows, public scandals and private tensions— each of them will have to decide how tightly to hold on to their creation. Because Barbie has never been just a doll—she’s a legacy.
- File Name:lets-call-her-barbie-by-renee-rosen.epub
- Original Title:Let's Call Her Barbie
- Creator:Renée Rosen
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9780593335697
- Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
- Date:2025-01-21
- File Size:9.689 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Also by Renée Rosen
- 3. Title Page
- 4. Copyright
- 5. Contents
- 6. Dedication
- 7. Part One: Thinking Small
- My Sources Say No
- The Wisdom of Razor Blades
- Huge but Not Gigundous
- The Power of Pink
- Do You Want to Dance?
- Let’s Call Her Barbie
- Ten Fingers and Ten Toes
- Don’t Call Her a Doll
- The Learning Curve
- Earning Her Keep
- Avoidance Behavior
- The Living Laboratory
- Something Borrowed, Something New
- The Juggling Act
- Put Her on Ice
- Lovesick
- Toy Fair
- One Card Left to Play
- But Mommy, Why?
- 8. Part Two: Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good
- Peacocks on Parade
- My Barbie’s Lonely
- Original Creations
- It’s All about the Breasts
- Someone Else’s Toothbrush
- Salt and Pepper
- Finding the Muse
- New Projects in the Works
- Babies Having Babies
- The Sisterhood
- Tweaks and Transformations
- Welcome to the Castle
- Don’t You Do What Your Big Sister Done
- Going Public
- Points of Articulation
- Your Girl’s in Trouble
- 9. Part Three: Buckle Up
- Anatomically Impossible
- The Happiness Maker Is Back
- The Difference between the Men and the Boys
- Executives and Pishers
- What’s My Line?
- Look, Just Look
- The Two Jacks
- Who’s Pulling the Strings?
- A Change of Plans
- 10. Part Four: Fall of the Dominoes
- Im-pul-siv-i-ty Strikes Again
- They Got It All
- The Coffee Klatch
- Not So Ruthless Anymore
- The Three Way
- Who’s to Blame?
- Top-Heavy and Flat-Footed
- A Little Favor
- Bill and Hold
- The Whistleblower
- The Glue Factory
- Twist My Arm
- On Being Insubordinate
- Falling into Place
- The Second Act
- Take Your Toys and Go Home
- 11. Author’s Note
- 12. Acknowledgments
- 13. Readers Guide
- A Conversation with Renée Rosen
- Questions for Discussion
- Photographs
- 14. About the Author
Renée Rosen
