Episode 76 – American Girl
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
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The Making of Addy Walker, American Girl’s First Black Doll
Permanent Underwear Controversy
Twitter Thinks American Girl’s New Boy Doll Looks Like A Hipster Who Will Ghost You
What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life
Candy pairing: Becca says Hershey’s chocolate, Rebecca says Blow Pops, Renata says a chocolate-covered bug.
Coming up next: Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about sad things like summer camp color war and also slavery, so you don't have to. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm not Kate. |
| 0:23.3 | And for this episode, we read Meet Addy by Connie Porter and Molly Saves the Day by Valerie Tripp. |
| 0:31.1 | Joining us to discuss the American Girl series is Rebecca, Children's Book Publicist and American Girl enthusiast. |
| 0:39.1 | Hello. |
| 0:39.9 | Hello. |
| 0:41.3 | It's me. |
| 0:44.2 | Rebecca, from TV. |
| 0:47.1 | So we have a Becca and a Rebecca, and hopefully that will not be too confusing. |
| 0:52.5 | I was going to say, we could just refer to me only as comet, |
| 0:55.5 | but that might derail things in other ways. |
| 0:58.0 | That might derail the whole thing. |
| 1:02.0 | As you have noticed by there being two beckas and zero Kate's, |
| 1:06.7 | just... |
| 1:08.0 | Kate is not here. |
| 1:10.6 | She is... you know what? |
| 1:12.5 | She saw a great comment at this point in the timeline, |
| 1:15.3 | but I guess she's still just hanging out outside the theater. |
| 1:17.6 | She's still losing and he ruined it. |
| 1:19.7 | No, but even by the time it comes out, whatever. |
| 1:24.8 | There was the whole thing we were doing, and now it's just... |
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