Babs Beloved Books: Vintage Barbie Book Collection! 👱🏻‍♀️🎀💙📚✨

This Christmas, I finally completed my vintage Barbie book collection thanks to awesome Ian and my parents! Yay!! 🥳💜

My Vintage Barbie Book Shelfie!

Ian found me a very affordable (and lovely) edition of Barbie's Easy-as-Pie Cookbook on eBay and it’s SOOO cute! The illustrations and recipes are adorable. This is one of my new favorite vintage cookbooks and, bonus, the cookbook actually has a mini story as an introduction to each recipe section. They're super fun to read!


My 2025 journal, knitting and this sweet Easy-as-Pie Barbie Cookbook!

Breakfast Tips!

Love the duotone illustrations!

Such cute chapter intros!

Sounds like a yummy punch!

Also, I’d been searching for the Ghost Town Mystery book for at least a few years. Even if I glimpsed a copy somewhere out in the wacky world wide web, it was snatched up before I even had a chance to look at the listing. 😭

Yipppeee!! The Ghost Town Mystery is finally in my hands!

When I DID manage to find copies of this book (or the Easy-as-Pie Cookbook) for sale, vendors were asking no less than $100-$150 (even in terrible condition) 😩

But, one day after the holidays, I just happened to be on Thrift Books and I saw this hard-to-find book listed for only $25! I couldn’t believe it (whaaa???? 😱), but I bought it immediately (using Christmas money from my mom and dad). I seriously did not think it would axtually arrive, but it did! And, it was in great condition. BEST DAY EVER! 😍❤️

Even though I’ve only read a few books in my collection so far, they’ve all been really good—with much better writing than you’d expect from a middle grade chapter book based on a popular doll of the time.

Vintage Astronaut Barbie, Barbie Comics and Barbie Books!

I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally have them all! Woooo! 🥳💜

BOOK RATINGS:

Here's Barbie 3.5🌟
Barbie's New York Summer 4.5🌟
Barbie's Candy-Striped Summer 3.5🌟
Barbie's Easy-As-Pie Cookbook 4.5🌟

It's funny because I've not only been to New York in the summer (at least a few times), but I was also a candy striper when I was young and, now, my work is writing articles (and occasionally creating recipes) for a very popular vegan food blog (which is essentially an online cookbook). Isn't that cool? Maybe someday I'll have a fashion success, solve a mystery, visit Hawaii and perhaps be on television (though, if you count YouTube as television—like this What's in My Purse video—I already am!) 😂😂

9/13 Barbie Series Book Collection

VINTAGE BARBIE SERIES L IST:

Characters include: Barbie Millicent Roberts, Ken Carson, Midge Hadley and Allan Sherwood. Published from 1962-1965.

Here's Barbie by Bette Lou Maybee/Cynthia Lawrence
Barbie's Fashion Success by Bette Lou Maybee
Barbie's New York Summer by Cynthia Lawrence
Barbie & Ken by Cynthia Lawrence
Barbie Solves a Mystery by Cynthia Lawrence
Barbie's Hawaiian Holiday by Bette Lou Maybee
Barbie's Secret by Eleanor K. Woolvin
Barbie in Television by Marianne Duest
Barbie, Midge & Ken by Cynthia Lawrence
Barbie's Candy-Striped Summer by Eleanor K. Woolvin
Barbie and the Ghost Town Mystery by Eleanor K. Woolvin
Barbie's Easy-as-Pie Cookbook by Cynthia Lawrence
The World of Barbie by Cynthia Lawrence/Bette Lou Maybee (this is a compilation of the first three books in one volume)

Although I don't own The World of Barbie, I do own the first three books. I'm very undecided whether I should purchase this last book or not. What do you think?

The eBay vendor sent me this vintage peignoir as a surprise gift with my book!

Many thumbs up to Random House for publishing such fantastic books in the 1960s! I think Lil of @lilsvintageworld would really love these books, too!

Let me know if you loved Barbie growing up (my little sister Kim and I did!!) and if you collect any vintage Barbies or Barbie books!

My little sister, Kimberly, and young ME! (approx. 1977 or 1978)

Many January hugs!! 💕❄️🤗❄️💕

Here are more pics of my vintage Barbie/Barbie Book collection! 🤩

Vintage Astronaut Barbie and Comics! I loved Astronaut Barbie!

Speaking of astronauts...did I tell you that I went to Space Camp when I was 15 and also first attended college with a major in Aerospace Engineering? I switched to Mathematics, but I still loved my time at Space Camp/Academy. Here I am wearing my flight suit from 1988—it still fits!