>> i like her eyes and her freckles and her hair. >> reporter: misha is an 8-year-old from wisconsin who loves playing with dolls. >> show me your dolls. >> reporter: especially this doll, yvette. it's one of the first bi-racial american girl dolls on the market. >> i asked her when she does go to a normal store what is the majority of the dolls that she sees versus yvette and just kind of explaining to her now that a lot of the brands that she envoys are now having a wider range of dolls that look like everyone. >> reporter: it's representation that misha's more didn't have as a kid growing up in the midwest. >> you didn't see dolls with brown skin. you didn't see a lot of curly-haired dolls. they all were kind of the typical blondes or brown hair. >> reporter: american girl approached children's author sharon dennis wyatt with an idea