Wednesday, 26 September 2007

taxidermy for tots

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:

Anonymous said...

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.

coffeesnob said...

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?