So at least "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" has a lot more on its mind — and a much more beneficial message for girls — than last summer's candy-coated movie-based-on-a-doll, ...

Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is “Nancy Drew” with training wheels. It’s a moist-eyed children’s comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today’s ...

Despite her cloche hat, feed-sack dresses and obsession with a relic known as a typewriter, modern girls might see a lot of themselves in Kit Kittredge, the Depression-era living-doll in the new ...

Teaching little girls about the Great Depression as a means of selling them stuff seems an odd approach to storytelling, but that is the premise of the new film “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” ...