If there are any known Pippa booklets out there, I would love to include her on this page too!
The 5 Original Pamphlets!
Here are some scans of the front and back of each of the 5 pamphlets, and how to spot them easily:
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Book #1 Book#2 Book#3 Book#4 Book#5 |
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I have created this page in hopes to help guide you through the "Wonderful World of Dawn Pamphlets".
When I first arrived on ebay and saw that one still existed, I could not believe it! I did not think that anyone would still have their old Dawn dolls, let alone the pamphlets!
I had to get it, and bid quite high for it too, and sadly enough it was not even a complete pamphlet there were pages missing! Don't let this happen to you, there are plenty of them out there! Take your time and search for a mint one, complete with all of the pages.
Though some are harder to find then others. Like pamphlet #3, but they too are out there if you know where to look, I found quite a few for some of my friends who did not have one of this elusive #3.
Hopefully this little guide will show you what to look for and help you decide which ones (or all)of these pamphlets you would like to have for yourself!
Pamphlet #1
24 pages
On the cover:
This booklet shows Dawn, Angie, Glori, and Dale pictured on the left side, and a close up of Dawn on the right side. The Center of the cover reads "The Wonderful World of Dawn Fun Fashion Friends" Some cover "noticables" are that in the close up of Dawn, her eyes are not only brown but they glance to her right instead of her left.
Also in the picture of the 4 dolls, Dale is wearing a pretty lime green chiffon dress with a yellow flower, (I don't think this dress was ever seen from again) Glori, is in Dawn's stock mini, Dawn is in Angies stock mini, and Angie is in Glori's stock mini.
On the back:
A sketch of Dawn in Starlight Ball with her hair in a pony tail ontop of the Dawn Music box. Above it reads "Dawn's Music box: Dance, Dance, Dance!"
Inside:
Pictures of Dawn, Angie, Glori, and Dale only. This book also pictures 38 of Dawn's Earliest Fashions.
Other Pictures:
This booklet also features sketches instead of pictures of the following:
Dawn's Fahion show, Dawn's Beauty Parlor, Dawn's Car (pink) Dawn's Sofa-phone set, Dawn 'N' Me Pocketbook, and a sketch of an open Dawn doll case which shows a drawer and an area for outfits.
There is NO Date on this booklet
Click here to see scans of the actual pamphlet!
Pamphlet #2
24 pages
On the cover:
This booklet shows Dawn, Angie, Glori, and Dale pictured on the left side, and a close up of Dawn on the right side. The Center of the cover reads "The Wonderful World of Dawn Fun Fashion Friends" Some cover "noticables" are that in the close up of Dawn, her eyes are not only brown but they glance to her right instead of her left.
Also in the picture of the 4 dolls, Dale is wearing a pretty lime green chiffon dress with a yellow flower, (I don't think this dress was ever seen from again) Glori, is in Dawn's stock mini, Dawn is in Angies stock mini, and Angie is in Glori's stock mini.
On the back:
A picture of Dawn in a pink mini with white pom poms ontop of the Dawn Music box. Above it reads "Dawn's Music box: Dance, Dance, Dance!"
Inside:
Pictures of Dawn, Angie, Glori, and Dale only. This book also pictures 38 of Dawn's Earliest Fashions. Just like pamphlet #1. However they appear in a different order, as you open the booklet the first pages on the inside start off with the outfits instead of introducing the 4 dolls, they now appear on the last 2 pages of the first side.
Other Pictures:
This booklet also features a sketch of an open Dawn doll case which shows a draw and an area for outfits. But actual pictuers have replaced the other sketches. These pictures include Dawn's Fashion Show, Dawn's Beauty Parlor, Dawn's Car (blue) Dawn's Music box, Dawn 'N' Me Pocketbook.
There is NO Date on this booklet
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Pamphlet #3
24 pages
On the cover:
The cover now has a sketch of many colorful flowers in the background and sketches of Dawn in a pink mini and Glori in Tinsel Tunic, The same type of artwork that was used for the 6 doll carrying case. This is the Hardest to find of all of the booklets!
The back:
The back has a sketch of the 6 doll case only! *Make a note of this as this is the easiest way to spot one in an auction if the back is showing. It also has the date 1970 Topper Corp. printed on the back.
Inside:
Features a close up picture of Dawn in a circle surrounded by close-ups (clockwise L-R) Pony Tail Glori, Angie, Jessica, Gary, Dale, Ron, Longlocks, and Van. This book also features full pictures of all of the "9 dancing dolls" and a picture of Dawns Fashion show (which is now limited to one page)
Just Some of the HTF Outfits pictured:
Pink Panther, In the Swim, Queen of Diamonds, Socko Swirls, Here Comes the Bride.Another interesting note about pamphlet #3 is that there are only 3 outfits per page, whereas the other pamphlets squeez in 4 ouftfits
For a list of all of the outfits pictured in this booklet click here:
List of Fashions Found in Book #3
The Date 1970 appears on the BACK cover of this booklet.
Click here to see scans of the actual pamphlet!
Pamphlet #4
24 pages
On the cover:
Same as Book #3 with the drawings of many colorful flowers in the background and sketches of Dawn in a pink mini and Glori in Tinsel Tunic, The same type of artwork that was used for the 6 doll carrying case. This is the most common of this type of cover booklet to find.
The back:
Pictures of the 6 and 3 doll carrying cases along with the 1971 date.
Inside:
This booklet has the exact same fashions that are found in books 1 and 2 the main difference other than the cover is it now shows Longlocks, Jessica, Gary, Ron, Van, and the dancing line.
The inside of the booklet starts off with images of the dolls faces in little circles. Dawn is pictured a little larger and is in the middle, Starting clockwise at the top is Pony tail Glori, Angie with the normal head mold (not that ugly one that was found in the first 2 booklets) Straight haired Jessica, Gary, Dale, Brown haired Ron, Longlocks, and Van.
Next you will see the line of Dancing dolls, (see booklet #5 for the description as they are the same pictures.
The Fashions as I had stated are the exact same ones that are found in booklets #1, and 2. The back shows a few more of the same outfits, along with 2 pages for the Beauty Pageant, One has a picture and one a description, the next two pages are Fancy feet, Dancing solo, with a description, followed by a page with the double dance Party with Fancy Feet and Kevin. The next Page is Dawn's Glamour Boutique , followed by what is actually the back cover a picture of the 3 and 6 doll cases. Then a picture and description of the fashion show, followed by a picture of Dawn in the Yellow Long and leather Driving in her pink car.
There is nothing to be found in this booklets, that is not seen in the other booklets, as all of the fashions were covered earlier, and all of the accessories covered later, so if you do not have this book you are not missing much, but since it is one of the easiest to find, why not "collect em all"??
The Date 1971 appears on the BACK cover of this booklet.
Click here to see scans of this Pamphlet!
Phamplet #5
24 pages
On the cover:
The cover still has the same sketch as books 3 and 4 consisting of many colorful flowers in the background and sketches of Dawn in a pink mini and Glori in Tinsel Tunic, The same type of artwork that was used for the 6 doll carrying case. This is the harder to find than booklets #'s 1,2, and 4. But Easier to find then booklet #3!
The back:
The Date on this booklet appears on the bottom of the front cover, this is because the last page is the Majorettes, so this book is pretty easy to identify in auctions on ebay!
Inside:
This booklet names only 26 outfits, on the front. It mostly focuses on the available "playsets" and accessories along with the new lines of dolls.
This booklet not only introduces the Majorettes, and Models, but it also shows the Dawn Flower Fantasies for the first time.This booklet starts off by introducing "Dawn and her friends", in full body shots. Dawn is pictured wearing Queen of Diamonds though the outfit is not mentioned by name. Angie is wearing the pink "neat pleats mini" and has the common Angie head again in most pictures (instead of that ugly head mold found in the first few books) though there are some recycled pictures of the older outfits where she still has that head mold.
Next is Jessica in Her Lime green Stock mini, (note she has her straight hairdo) Longlocks is wearing a pink metallic mini, followed by Dale in her Orange and gold "fuzzy type mini". Glori is wearing The Green version of Twinkle Twirl with the shoulder straps (and her hair is not in a pony tail for this shot!). Ron is found in "White and Wow" (though again the outfit is not mentioned) Gary is in is Orange and Yellow zig zag outfit and Van in his football outfit with Yellow pants and sneakers.
The next photos are of "Dancing Dawn and her friends, Dawn is now wearing the silver barrel Mini with red fringe, Dale in a Gold Brocade mini with Yellow fringe, Jessica appears to be in a "canary"colored stewardess dress (no chains). Glori placed her hair back into that Pony tail and is wearing her white and gold mini. Longlocks must have been messing around with Gary, because neither one seemed to have time to change their outfits, and are wearing the same outfits as described in the prior "photo shoot" though Gary is wearing what appears to be white shoes now (maybe he put on Longlocks slippers?) Angie is in a pink barrel mini with blue fringe, Ron is wearing a yellow shirt along with some wild striped pants. Then Gary, Followed by Van who is now wearing a different #10 Jersey, this one has a wider neck and he now has white pants on and black shoes.
The next 2 pages have new outfits and are all modeled by Dawn except for Dale who is wearing "What a racket" The outfits are as follows
Sheer Delight, Swing and Sway, Flirty Flounce, Green Fling, Twinkle Twirl, Pillow Party, What a Racket, Toe Tapper.
The next 5 pages show the same fashions from booklets #1, 2, and 4:
Strawberry Sundae, City Slicker, Mad about Plaid, Tangerama Tunic, Singin' in the Rain, Shocker Frocker, Bell Bottom Bounce, Chain 'er up (bright orange version), Neat Pleats, Furbulous Fake, Peachy Keen, All that Glitters, Silver au-Go-Go, Starlight Ball, Flirty Flounce, Huggly Snuggly, Maxi Mod, and Wedding Bell Dream
The Back side of the booklet features the following pages:
Dawn"s Flower Fantasies on the first page, Dawns Doll case, and Dawn"s Music box share a page, Followed by Dawn"s "New" Car which now shows her Pink care with "her own signature on the hood and door and a sprinkling of flowers" Next is Dawn's dress shop (which was listed as Dawn's Glamour Boutique in the 4th booklet) It also shows a picture of the Dress Shop Boxed. The Next two pages are dedicated to Dawn"s Dance party The first one shows Fancy Feet and Kevin on their individual stages, and the second page shows the Double Dance Party (or the two stages hooked together anyway). This is followed by a page for Dawn's Beauty Pageant, Then 2 pages introducing The Majorettes, The Last items listed in this booklet is the introduction of the Dawn Model Agency dolls, Dressed in their most common outfits.
The Date 1971 appears on the FRONT of this booklet.
Click here to see scans of the actual pamphlet!
The 30th Anniversary Dawn Doll Pamphlet!
This is the first of what may be many more Pamphlets.
This pamphlet only shows the outfits and dolls that were released the past year.
These include
The 30th Anniversary Editions of
DawnŽ, AngieŽ, GloriŽ & DaleŽ
as well as the 3 outfits, Gold au-go-go, In the Spotlight, and Chain 'er up again.
It also shows the limited edition 30th Anniversary Poster.
The only date that appears on this book is on the poster page where it reads 1970-2000
Dawn and Her World-
The New Play Line!
This is the Second of the Checkerboard Toys Pamphlets.
Pamphlet #2 of the New Checkerboard Dawn Features the New Play line.
The cover shows the Same Drawing (originally from the pink 3 doll Topper case) as found on Pamphlet #1.
The Pamphlet now has a blue background.
The Title is Dawn and Her World, and on the bottom reads "It's Groovy to be a Girl".
This pamphlet features 8 pages which fold out, accordion style, like the original Topper Toys ones did.
This pamphlet shows Dawn and 3 of her new friends
Denise, Macy, and Shannon.
The pamphlet also features 3 new sets of play line outfits each set has 4 different outfits.
The sets include: "High School Cool", "Groovy Glam", and "Fun Formals".
There is also a picture of the Dawn Diary which comes with Specially marked Dawn dolls!
This book is dated 2001
Below shows a comparision photo between the Checkerboard Pamphlet and the Topper Pamplet
DawnŽ, AngieŽ, GloriŽ & DaleŽ
Are Registered Trademarks of Checkerboard Toys.