Greta Mae Hedgcock didn't have much growing up in Michigan. "I didn't have many dolls as a little girl because during the Depression kids had to do without toys," she said in a 1979 interview with the ...

It's a plush doll. It's a bag charm. It's a collectible that recently sold for six figures. But no, this wildly popular creature isn't a Gremlin or one of the monsters in Maurice Sendak's children's ...