Wed, Sep 03
|Home of Marty Sinclair
OP Hobbies: Reading with Readers - "Let's Call Her Barbie"
Order a copy of "Let's Call Her Barbie" by author Renee Rosen to read this month. This historical fiction novel follows the creative rebels at Mattel who created Barbie and her brand! We'll get together to discuss.
Time & Location
Sep 03, 2025, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM
Home of Marty Sinclair, 14750 Bond St, Overland Park, KS 66221, USA
About the Event
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world.
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.
In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.
As Ruth assembles her team of creative rebels—head engineer Jack Ryan who hides his deepest secrets behind his genius and designers Charlotte Johnson and Stevie Klein, whose hopes and dreams rest on the success of Barbie’s fashion—she knows they’re working against a ticking clock to get this wild idea off the ground.
In the decades to…