Paper Doll Books and Magazines of 2025!
Look at all the fabulous paper doll books and magazines from 2025! None of this would be possible without the talents of our artists, writers, editors and designers—and, of course, all of you wonderful collectors who buy our paper dolls and subscribe to the magazine! Thank you to everyone for keeping us going!
Tom Tierney - Thanks to Tom's niece Kathy O'Tierney, we have two new paper doll books by Tom! Parade of Stars celebrates eight classic stars who had been special guests of Paper Doll events in LA. Cherished characters from Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz are transformed into paper dolls in Tom's Alice and Dorothy.
Julie Allen Matthews illustrated two fun books: Emma McKay Every Day, inspired by classic magazine paper dolls such as Betsy McCall; and A Very Flapper Halloween featuring a flirtatious flapper and her spooktacular fancy dress costumes.
Ralph Hodgdon entrusted us with a big stack of his original paper doll art in hopes we'd publish new paper doll books. In 2025 we issued Marie Antoinette Vol. 1 and Marion Davies. We hope to offer more books by Ralph in 2026!
Dan DeSantis has become a favorite among collectors. Two books came out in 2025: Madaling and Lockie McLuckie, both inspired by adventurous ladies of the Jazz Age. Coming in 2026: Beverly Bazaar!
Kwei-lin Lum created the most inventive paper doll of all! A to Z Paper Dolls takes you from Apricots to Zodiacs. Isabelle and Chloe model fantastic fashions based on alliterative adages, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Eileen Rudisill "Rudy" Miller created a classy collection of 20th Century Couture Paper Dolls, showcasing 100 years of fashion, from Worth to Versace. Rudy is already working on two new books for Paperdoll Review. What are the topics? Think tea and princesses!
Inspired by our own girls' camping trip early in 2025, Alina Kolluri dreamed up a camping trip for paper dolls in a most charming book called Glamping with Opal and Briar Lee. Alina also illustrated a paper doll book featuring authentic folk costumes for her favorite storybook character in Red Riding Hood in the Black Forest.
In association with the Deanna Williams estate, we produced another delightful paper doll book by Deanna—Caroline Comes Calling with elegant Victorian era gowns.
Rachel Cohen tapped into the big-eyed doll craze with her Big Eyed Girlies paper doll book, inspired by such dolls as Blythe, Pullip and Rainbow High.
Golly, that's a lot of terrific paper dolls! We also issued a mid-century reproduction called Hisayo-chan’s Dress-up and produced three issues of our Paperdoll Review magazine!
There's a whole lot of paper doll image sharing happening all over the Internet, but we need folks to actually buy paper dolls in order to stay in business. We take pride in producing high quality, professionally published books and magazines and hope collectors will continue to shop and new generations will embrace this enriching form of play. Whether you're into fashion, classic film, storybooks, history, nostalgia or kitsch, there's a paper doll for you! Please visit paperdollreview.com and shop for paper dolls!
