Dolls I Didn't Buy: Liddle Kiddles "Sheila Skediddle" (1968)
This poor girl was abandoned in a box in the garage of the same estate sale that had Mary Poppins. She's 4 inches tall, the tallest size of Liddle Kiddle -- a Mattel mini-doll phenomenon that ran from 1965 into the early 1970s. Sheila is missing her Skediddler, a wheeled pusher device that looked vaguely like an old upright vacuum. The Skediddler plugged into the doll's back, then when you pushed it, the doll's arms and legs moved, and its head turned.
My parents must have enthusiastically started buying toys for me before I was old enough for them, as I definitely remember Sheila as my aesthetic favorite among my Liddle Kiddles, mostly because she looked like me.
There were tons of Liddle Kiddle clones and knock-offs. A lot of my dolls that I classified as Liddle Kiddles were in fact Hasbro Storykins. I had Mother Hubbard, Goldilocks, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Prince Charming and his Horse.
