Elsie Dinsmore

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

It's nice to leave the poor little Yanks in their bubbles, unmolested by clue-sticks, yes?

Elsie Dinsmore was the heroine of a set of books. Really boring books. They are generally held up as examples of how not to evangelise to children, because the lessons they teach can be summarised as 'Christianity is boring and will make you boring and unsufferable'.

A group of Christians (or, for all I know, pagans with a chip on their shoulder) has made a series of dolls called 'Life of Faith' They're hideous and freaky, and all about the evangelisation. Whatever.

I just found out that they're also based on the Elsie books.

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

The dolls are American. The idea that the books are any good, for anything other than Victorian kitsch value is American, as far as I can tell.

I meant evangelical in the sense of 'God is good! You should like God!' rather than in the more fundamentalist sense, but I suspect they're both.

(Have you seen these Jewish dolls? They're quite sweet, and the stories seem more interesting.)

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

Ah right, I got confused by the Yanks in a bubble thing :)

I've seen Gali Girls. I like the concept (it's better than the other ones I saw that were REALLY stereotyped in terms of gender roles) but I'm not sure about the execution.

Tefillin Barbie is cool though, even if I'm not into the whole women-wearing-tallit-and-tefillin thing!

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

There was an official Rabbi Barbie at some stage as well, wasn't there, for Reform Jews?

I can't find it now, so maybe I'm mistaken.