went book shopping for my 1 year old nephew, zoom. he won't be ready for "timon of athens" for six or seven months, so i was hoping to find something with a funny, arresting title like "taxidermy for tots". no luck. i settled for "peppa pig" instead. apparently this pig is also a star on tv. news to me.during this bookshelf browsing i hatched what baldrick calls "a cunning plan". i thought i'd assemble a pre-teen survival kit: a holus-bolus of non-electronic toy necessaries to see the nephew through to the onset of his double-digit, girl-complicated years. nothing too extensive. just a small survival kit of amusing gizmos. such as:
rubik's cube*
yo-yo (they have ball-bearings now and spin forever)
frisbee
supersoaker
viewmaster
slinky
one of those vortex doodlebug things
joy-buzzer
*my only qualm about giving him a cube is the likelihood that he'll end up solving it before i do.
2 comments:
would you get him the ball-bearing yo-yo or make him work for it with a wooden one?
he's got a few months to go so you could get started on the rubik's now.
the bearings. let do round the world until his arms fall off. besides, who could get tired a yo-yo that goes to sleep forever?
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