The Mouse didn’t say a word. She didn’t need to. I saw the ‘you’re-a-loser-daddy’ look on her face as she gazed across the table at the 10″ tall foam witch complete with broomstick and cauldron. The PlayFoam witch maker gave me similar eyes as she planted her flag atop Awesome […]
The Monster Who Couldn’t Decide by Andi Green As with her previous work, but even more so in The Monster Who Couldn’t Decide, there exists a gentle cadence to Andi Green-penned text. Like canoeing lazily down a river, Green’s prose is extremely comforting because she doesn’t set out to awe […]
It took approximately 27.6 seconds for the Bear’s mental hamster wheel to spin a story of a skeleton key, bumble bees, a scale, and a sleeping parachuting fella. A few moments later, the Mouse spit a tall tale involving an alien landing in a fountain then blowing up like a […]
The brainchild of a mother-daughter team, Little Librarian makes playing pretend library in your own home a little less like pretend thanks to realistic library cards, late notices, and those old school book pockets and cards from the pre-computer era when your name and due date would be written on […]
Silly Bandz have entered my home. The Bear’s life, from an entertainment and culture standpoint, is decidedly outside of the mainstream. This isn’t an accident. She probably wasn’t able to participate in some conversations with her kindergarten classmates, if said discussions were trapped inside the pop culture frame of a […]
Before bed last night, my gang sat down to play Take the Cake, a brand new game from Gamewright, that’s simple enough for the Mouse (age 3), yet fun enough for the Bear (age 6). Take the Cake provides the right mixture of fun and challenge. The idea behind Take […]
The Zhu Zhu Pets craze, which peaked pre-Christmas, has calmed down quite a bit but may be on the upswing again after the furry lil’ critters took home the 2010 Most Innovative Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award. Want a Zhu Zhu Pet for yourself your kid? In celebration of […]
Unfortunately, I won’t be at the NYC Toy Fair this year. But, a couple of fine folks I discovered during the 2009 NYC Toy Fair will be back, this time with way more than just prototypes of their inventions. Allow my dispatches here, here and here from the 2009 Toy […]
