Product Description

The American Girls Collection. This is Samantha. There are 6 books about Samantha and her family and friends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4370 in Books
• Published on: 1990-09
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Samantha Captures Victorian America
One of my favorite American Girls books, Samantha captures the story of victorian america. Although I missed the tv making of the book, I find the Samantha book a near classic for Christmas. The victorian times is among one of my favorites so this series by the American Girls became my favorite. This series is very innocent and sweet about the daily life of a normal victorian girl, but it touches on the authenticity of the victorian era just as the Emily Cobbs series in the Gifted Girls books, but without the mystery and adventure. Samantha is a little young for my 13 year old sister because of its simplicity in story, but alright for younger readers up to 10.

A pretty neat book
Samantha is a Victorian girl. She is an orphan who's Grandmother takes her in. Eventually, she moves to New York, where her Aunt and Uncle adopt her. While she is with her Grandmother, she makes new friends, plays tricks on the spoiled neighbor, and goes on lots of exciting adventures. I read the first book in her series last year. I completely fell in love with character! I decided to save my money and buy the Samantha doll from pleasant company. Over all, The Samantha books were great, and I reccomend them to readers ages 8 to 12.

Sweet Samantha
The Pleasant Company is quite a company! It's wonderful how they wrote the books during important epoches in American history, but they aren't boring books at all. They are part of the books that made up part of my childhood.

The six books all follow a girl named Samantha Parkington, who is an orphan and is living during the final years of the Victorian times. Loads of new inventions are everywhere. Samantha likes some of the modern things, but her Grandmother sure doesn't. She wants Samantha to become a young lady and follow old ideas.

I picked up and read all the books yesterday and loved them, just as I did when I first got them when I was seven. But I noticed something about them I was probably too naive to notice: Samantha seems all so different in every book. Samantha is the only American Girl whose six boooks are written by different authors. The first two were written by Susan S. Adler. (Why did she stop at the first two? She didn't die. In the copyright it has her birth year, but no death year. Oh, well). The third one was written by Maxine Rose Schur. (She wrote only one. No birthyear or death year is listed in copyrights). The last three are written by Valeire Tripp. (No surprise there. She wrote most of the American girl series anyway. Besides, we know she's fine). The personality of Samantha changed because of all those authors. Susan Adler made Samantha a bit dreamy and imaginative. Maxine Rose Schur made her a bit ... not spit-fire-ish, but...well, Samantha wasn't as creative as Susan Adler made her. Then Valeire Tripp made Samantha like Susan Adler first wrote her, minus the dreaminess and her streak of tomboyishness. I guess it's like some grown-up effect that happened or something. I would shave off a star if I could for all those personality changes.

I really love these books though. I would recomend it to any girl who is old enough to read. It might be hard for girls who are starting off reading, unless they are avid readers, since I read them about half a year or so after I first began to read and it took me about a couple of days to read it and understand it.