The book assists parents in navigating toy and play options, offers tips on evaluating toy safety, and suggests innumerable diverse activities. The book identifies educational and age-appropriate toys, important craft supplies for playtime and offers hundreds of useful ways to make play a life-long and nurturing experience. A great addition to the library of anyone who cares about children! This book is a valuable resource for parent, grandparents, teachers, toy store personnel, toy designers and anyone in the toy industry! The book has been published in 12 countries.

This unique, comprehensive guide helps parents select the best toys and games for developing "Play Quotient" (PQ) and expanding child's play. The book helps parents navigate toy and play options, offers tips on evaluating toy safety, and suggests 160 activities. The book identifies educational and age-appropriate toys, important craft supplies for playtime and hundreds of ways to make play a life-long and nurturing experience. Good for anyone in the toy industry from designers to sales. Book available in USA and translated in 12 countries so far. • Helps parents choose the right toy for the right child at the right time. What's more, she inspires readers to remember play time happens outside of a child's toy box: I highly recommend this book. Sharon DiMinico, CEO, Learning Express • Smart Play+Smart Parents = Smart Kids. Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. writes with rare power of original analysis. Richard C. Levy, Toy Inventor/Author A great addition to the library of anyone who cares about children! This book is for parent, grandparents, teachers, toy store personnel, toy designers and anyone else in the toy industry!

Discusses the importance of play for a child's emotional and intellectual growth. Gives "specific advice on which toys to buy and what kind of games to play to empower your child's overall development."--Back cover.

The Internet of Toys (IoToys) is a developing market within our Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate the opportunities and risks of IoToys before their widespread diffusion. Contributors to this volume each provide a critical analysis of the design, production, regulation, representation and consumption of internet-connected toys. In order to address the theoretical, methodological and policy questions that arise from the study of these new playthings, and contextualise the diverse opportunities and challenges that IoToys pose to educators, families and children themselves, the chapters engage with notions of mediatization, datafication, robotification, connected and post-digital play. This timely engagement with a key transformation in children’s play will appeal to all readers interested in understanding the social uses and consequences of IoToys, and primarily to researchers and students in children and media, early childhood studies, media and communications, sociology, education, social psychology, law and design.

This entertaining and informative book--written by Marianne Szymanski, child development and toy expert, and Ellen Neuborne, an award-winning business journalist--is an essential and authoritative guide to toys and play. Based on thirteen years of independent consumer-focused research, Toy Tips offers invaluable advice and practical information about selecting appropriate toys and answers questions such as Why do kids play with toys? What is the true role of toys? Which toys are good and which aren’t? How do toys figure into normal, healthy child development? “Invaluable and specific guidance about how the right toys can help your kids learn, develop, build skills, and have some fun.” --Michele Borba, consultant, educator, and author, Parents Do Make a Difference, Building Moral Intelligence, and No More Misbehavin' “No one is better equipped than Marianne Szymanski to help you make smart choices when purchasing toys for your kids or for the kids in your life.”--Spencer Christian, former host of Szymanski’s guest segments on ABC’s Good Morning America, and author, Is There a Dinosaur in Your Backyard? and many other children’s books “Szymanski’s years of experience and passion for serving children make her a leading voice in the developmental benefits of toys and play.”--From the Foreward by Marvin W. Berkowitz