Here’s a bit of American Girl history for you: Addy has had various different illustrators for her books during her time as a historical character. Originally, the first three books were illustrated by an illustrator named Melodye Rosales, but due to racially-charged disagreements regarding the illustrations from Melodye, who is biracial and wanted to express the harsh realities of slavery, as well as colorism, within the illustrations, and the white executives at Pleasant Company, she was replaced for the rest of Addy’s series. This article explains more about it: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/the-making-of-addy-walker-american-girls-first-black-doll.html
Melodye’s illustrations were eventually replaced in 1998, but AGDN reader AmericanGirlStar DMed me with some exciting news: in the new Meet Addy that comes with the re-released doll, the original illustrations are back!
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One simple question about the later illustrations of the books, which I’ve never seen, with a few exceptions. I own the 1993 boxed set of books. Her meet outfit and he school outfit are about the only clothes she wears in Happy Birthday, Addy, and Addy’s summer book, except for the special outfits she wears for her birthday and at the church social in the summer on those particular days. I did notice that a later edition of Happy Birthday, Addy! shows her stilt outfit on the cover, and the dress Momma makes for her to read the Emancipation Proclamation in appears in at least one of her short stories. So my question is does her birthday outfit or her…
Ok, call me extremely slow, but I just now realized they are selling the og birthday books with the rereleased birthday outfits!!!!!! Im so excited, oh my gosh, this is amazing!! Thank you American Girl, and please start doing this with all the birthday books and all the original birthday outfits. Then, you could do a summer themed or school themed release with those outfits and books another year, hint, hint, hint…..
i noticed that on her fact page! it's so exciting to have them back!! and that ag acknowledged all 3 illustrators! i have 'happy birthday addy' and 'addy learns a lesson' in the og illustrations and they're so much better! very classic! ;)
Samantha and Molly also had different illustrators when their books first released as well. Happy Birthday Samantha was the first Samantha book I ever read and when I first read that book it was in pleasant company illustrations first published in 1987.