A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

For more than 30 years, Tom Tierney has been the pen behind some of the country's most popular paper doll books. The books feature celebrities like Joan Crawford, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and ...

Ann Siegal, who drove from Virginia to make the doll delivery, picks out some of her favorites for show-and-tell. Navigating a library of novels, textbooks, and encyclopedias is best conquered with a ...