Raggedy Ann --the well-known rag doll with red yarn hair, a triangle nose and star of a series of children's books written by American writer Johnny Gruelle -- will be the focus of events held at the ...

I haven’t written about Raggedy Ann for several years, but hers is an interesting tale. The story goes that Raggedy Ann began as a faceless rag doll found by a little girl named Marcella in her ...

Raggedy Ann is a simple and unpretentious doll with button eyes and a tender smile. Not bad for over 100 years old. You won't find her in many stores these days. Her old-fashioned rag-doll look of ...

Fabric dolls are a direct descendant of the homemade rag doll, and no doll typifies the American image better than the red, white and blue smiling faces of Raggedy Ann and Andy. No one really knows ...

I was shocked to discover that my granddaughters, ages 13, 11 and 9, have no idea about the Raggedy Ann doll. Her name was in a story that one of them was reading, and she asked about the doll. I must ...

ARCOLA — It used to be common knowledge that there was a connection between this Douglas County town and the Raggedy Ann and Andy characters created by native son Johnny Gruelle. There was the annual ...