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LET’S CALL HER BARBIE is a fab fiction novel about the people who made Barbie a star: Ruth Handler, Jack Ryan, and Charlotte Johnson (Barbie’s Fashion designer!). Renée Rosen pulls back the curtain on all the obstacles that stood in the way of one of the boldest toy lines in history, and how how Handler made the Mattel company what it is.