Toys With Nine Lives: A Social History of American Toys

By Andrew McClary

Book Overview

Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0208023860
• ISBN13: 9780208023865
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Linnet Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent work on the history of toys

While serious toy collectors may wish for more detail on the individual toys themselves, the book is nonetheless a well crafted look at the social history of toys. The book allows the reader to reflect on the important role that toys have played throughout history. Everyone has at some point played and owned toys of some sort, but how many of us have ever stopped to think about the social constructions of the toys themselves? Well researched and interesting throughout, McClary's book presents the reader with the opportunity to examine the social influences that impacted the toys loved by our parents, our kids and even ourselves.