BROADCASTS.com

Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)

by Johnny GRUELLE (1880 - 1938)

Raggedy Ann Rescues Fido

This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella and Raggedy Ann became inseparable, and inspired Gruelle to write Raggedy Ann Stories, which was sold with its very own Raggedy Ann doll. Sadly, Marcella died at age 13 after complications from a smallpox vaccine, but Gruelle continued writing about Raggedy Ann. (description by Zachary Brewster-Geisz)

---

Listen next episodes of Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2):
Raggedy Ann and the Chickens , Raggedy Ann and the Fairies' Gift , Raggedy Ann and the Kittens , Raggedy Ann and the Mouse , Raggedy Ann and the Painter , Raggedy Ann and the Strange Dolls , Raggedy Ann's New Sisters , Raggedy Ann's Trip on the River