The American Girls: Theater

by Valerie Tripp

With the Portfolio of Pastimes, you can do the same things today that American girls did long ago - play the games they played, cook the meals they ate, write in a diary as they did, act in plays, and cut out paper dolls.

Genres: Theatre, Childrens

14 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1989

About the author

Valerie Tripp is a children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl series.

She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York with three sisters and one brother. A member of the first co-educated class at Yale University, Tripp also has a M.Ed. from Harvard. Since 1985 she has lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her husband teaches history at Montgomery College.

Right out of college, Tripp started writing songs, stories, and nonfiction for The Superkids Reading Program, working with Pleasant Rowland, the founder of American Girl. For that series, Tripp wrote all the books about Felicity, Josefina, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen and many of the books about Samantha. She also wrote the "Best Friends" character stories to date, plays, mysteries, and short stories about all her characters.. Film dramatizations of the lives of Samantha, Felicity, Molly, and Kit have been based on her stories. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic and adapting Greek Myths for Starry Forest Publishing. A frequent speaker at schools and libraries, Tripp has also spoken at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, The New York Historical Society, and Williamsburg.

Reviews

[Brielle Bogenschutz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think as a young group of girls this book is awesome to get together and read and act out! I enjoyed reading it myself however, I couldn't give it 5 stars because it wasn't something I loved so much but I did thoroughly enjoy it.

[Ashlyn Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked these. I used to be a big an of AMerican Girls and their stories. I remember the first one I ever read was Meet Felicity in the third grade. She is my favorite, but I do love them all. I really liked recapping and having fun reading this.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

My cousin and I have fun with this as kids. We acted it out and my aunt filmed it with her video camera. I think something like this is for all ages. Great memories!! Too bad didn't come with costumes!

[Suzanne Costner · Rating 3 out of 5]

My great grandmother gave these to me when I was really too old for them, but my friends and I mounted our own productions of the plays in my bedroom that summer. Good times!