Each unpaginated book measured 6” x 9 1/2”, came with a dust jacket, and had both color and black and white illustrations. Several more books in the Raggedy Ann series followed. Her brother, Raggedy Andy, made his debut in “Raggedy Andy Stories” in 1920. A Raggedy Ann rag doll came with each book. In 1918, Johnny Gruelle sold his first volume of “Raggedy Ann Stories” to the P. When Marcella died in 1915 at the age of 13, Gruelle began writing the stories down. John Barton Gruelle (1880-1938) conjured up the Raggedy Ann stories to entertain his ailing daughter, Marcella Delight Gruelle, who was fond of a rag doll she had found in her grandmother’s attic. Step into the whimsical world of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, loved by generations of young and old alike for more than 90 years. from “Raggedy Ann Stories,” by Johnny Gruelle, 1918 “Fairyland must be filled with rag dolls, soft loppy rag dolls who go through all the beautiful adventures found there, nestling in the crook of a dimpled arm.”
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