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Kit Items
Since Kit was introduced in 2000, she never had any of the original Pastimes books
which were introduced in 1994 and phased out beginning in 2003. Kit never had a
Kit's World Map which came out for the first five girls in 1996 nor did she have a
Scenes & Settings book which were introduced for those same girls in 1997.
Finally, since Little Orphan Annie was very popular during the Great Depression, I thought it would
be great if Kit had an outfit and accessory set that could go with a Short Story. The story might
involve Kit wearing her Orphan Annie Halloween costume when she went with her class to be in the audience
at Radio Station WLW in Cinncinnati in late October 1935 to watch a Little Orphan Annie radio show being
recorded. The show's host would notice Kit in her costume and invite her onstage to say one of the lines
of a kid in that week's radio script!
In 2003, all of the historical girls but Felicity each got
a "Stories & Outfit Collection with Caddy" which included three outfits (two in Kaya's case), some accessories,
two stories and one short story.
In 1997, just before Josefina was introduced, Pleasant Company
was still offering the Scenes & Settings books for the first five girls.
Paintings were commissioned for use in producing a Josefina Scenes & Settings
book but apparently the decision to discontinue them came just as Josefina was introduced.
The Scenes & Settings images below are based upon those original paintings. Josefina's
Scenes & Settings book is an example of an item that "Almost Was."
Josefina did not get an Art Studio like Kaya, Samantha, Molly and Kit
did in 2000.
The original illustrator of Molly's first three books (Meet Molly, Molly Learns a Lesson, Molly's Surprise) was C. F. Payne, with Book 4 (Happy Birthday, Molly) being done by David Gaadt. But in 1988, Nick Backes replaced them as illustrator on Molly's books. Mr. Backes did the illustrations for Books 5 and 6, and he then redid the illustrations in the first four books in 1989. Molly's 1994 Series Trading Cards all feature these redone illustrations by Nick Backes. If Pleasant Company had decided to create the first sets of AG Trading Cards in 1987 instead of 1994, the first 33 cards of Molly's set would be based on C. F. Payne's illustrations and cards 34-41 would feature David Gaadt's illustrations.
For some reason, Kirsten did not get an Art Studio like Kaya, Samantha, Molly and Kit
did in 2000.
In 2000, Addy did not get an Art Studio as Kaya, Samantha, Molly and Kit did.
Kaya was introduced in 2002 which was after the Pastimes books, World Maps and
Scenes & Settings books were discontinued. Also, Kaya was never given a Meet
or Read poster and never had a Stationery Set.
Kaya's Paper Dolls set, which came out in 2003, shows the "Traditional Dance Outfit" which is
an outfit that is not available for Kaya.
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