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The quiet does not last long at that age. This buys you a stretch of it, andyou get to keep your coffee hot. It is a spiral-bound book of thick pages, and on every page there issomething to peel off and put back. Colors,...

Ten little men, seven centimetres tall, one in each colour, and amagnet set into both hands and both feet. That is the whole toy. It is also thereason a father filmed his table at a diner with the caption when you findan activity that...

Thirty pages of colours, numbers, letters and shapes, and a markerthat wipes off so it can all be done again tomorrow. The pieces are velcro. She pulls the orange one off its page and puts it onthe orange fruit. She matches the number four...

They stack like blocks and squeeze like a stress ball. Each of the 40 soft building blocks is translucent, so a tower catches the window light and turns into something worth staring at. They press together and pull apart with small hands, which makes...

The lid comes off, and that is the whole moment. Every dumpling squishy ships sealed inside its own steamer basket, so nobody knows which one is in there until you lift it off. There are four designs to collect: purple glitter, green, yellow, and...

Every box leaves the factory sealed. Nobody knows what is inside,not us, not you, not the kid tearing the flap open. Twelve designs to hunt: jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, skulls, purple grins, eyeballsand more. Each one is about four inches of soft, see-through squeeze. Press it...

They will ask to go outside. That is the whole point. It is a fighter jet cut out of thick EPP foam, with four rotors sunk flat intothe wing and a coloured light ring around each one. It lifts off a flat hand,holds its...

You throw it, it comes back. That is the whole afternoon, right there. It is a light-up orb about the size of a grapefruit. Switch it on, give it aspin, and let go: it lifts, it curves, and it drops back into an open...