Motor City Doll Club Presents: Lenon Holder Hoyte a virtual event

The next segment of Motor City Doll Club Presents will take place virtually on Thursday, April 9th, at 6:00 PM.  

Past MCDC President Sharon Harbin will present on Lenon Holder Hoyte, an inspiring educator who amassed an extraordinary collection of dolls and founded Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum in her Harlem brownstone in 1974.

Register for this online event here. 

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Best Fashion Friend Princess Adventure Barbie

Best Fashion Friend Princess Adventure Barbie

A 28-inch Barbie with natural-textured hair has been crossed off my doll wish list. I recently found her online at a great price and was pleasantly surprised by her great condition. Except for a tilted tiara (which I've left as is), she is flawless. 

The turquoise boots clash with the colors of her clothing, but that was Mattel's color choice for some odd reason.

As indicated, she is in great condition and appears to have never been played with.

Several years ago, my husband urged me to buy a 28-inch Barbie with the same hairstyle as this doll. He saw her while waiting for me as I browsed a store's toy aisle. At that time, purchasing it was a hard pass. She was rejected! But my, how things and desires change. 

With the help of AI, I placed Princess Adventure Barbie in a royal kingdom setting.

Best Fashion Friend Princess Adventure Barbie's Excel spreadsheet description reads as follows:

28-inch vinyl Barbie has articulation in the usual 5 places, plus the elbows and wrists. Has natural-textured, black-rooted hair styled in two side Afro puffs; brown-painted eyes with painted upper and lower eyelashes, and an open smiling mouth with red lip color. Wears a pink dress with a pink layered tulle skirt embellished with pink lamé stars and cursive words like love, awesome, magnifique, and happy. The dress has an attached lavender lamé jacket that has a white faux fur collar. A pink tiara, white molded-on bikini panties, and turquoise mock-lace-up boots complete the fashion.

Best Fashion Friend Princess Adventure Barbie was released in 2020, designed as a complement to the musical movie Barbie: Princess Adventure. She is my second 28-inch Barbie. The other one, found at a thrift store, has rainbow-colored straight hair. The two are posed together in the next photo.

Princess Adventure Barbie and Rainbow Sparkle Barbie display well together. 

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Learn Baby Learn

Former librarian and published author Charlotte Watson Sherman shared the following information about her new book:


"I have written a picture book, Learn Baby Learn: The Shindana Toy Factory’s Legacy of Black Pride, published March 10, 2026, to describe the events leading up to the Watts Uprising and the resulting partnership between a community organization, Operation Bootstrap, and Mattel, Inc. that led to the creation of the Shindana Toy Factory. Shindana was the first Black toy company and, eventually, the world’s largest maker and seller of Black dolls, toys, and games. For the first time, Black girls and boys could play with dolls that looked like them."

Hardcover and paperback versions are available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other websites.

Ms. Sherman's other books include, Brown Sugar Babe, Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps, and co-author of This Opening Sky, a 2024 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection.

Visit the author's website or contact her by email at the links below:

www.charlottewatsonsherman.com

mizwatts709@gmail.com

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There are countless items to collect and write about. Black dolls chose me.
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