Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and the historic technique of "needle molding"
Charles G. D. Roberts Canadian Monthly" and several American periodicals, including the "New York Independent", which called it 'a little book of choice things, with the indifferent things well weeded out.'" On December 29, 1880, Roberts married Mary Fenety, and they had five children. The biography by Roberts's friend Edmund Collins, "The Life and Times of Sir John A. Macdonald", was published in 1883. The book was a success, going through eight printings. It contained a chapter on "Thought and Literature in Canada," which devoted 15 pages to Roberts, quoting from "Orion". Collins' characterization of Roberts as "our greatest Canadian poet" helped develop Roberts'