Five Toy Tales

A collection of five stories with all the toys and their adventures.

Collects the adventures of characters from the "Toy Story" movie series, including Woody, Buzz, and Andy.

Collects the adventures of characters from the "Toy Story" movie series, including Woody, Buzz, and Andy.

While Dad’s away, the toys will play! Freddie is a young boy whose dad is often away overseas travelling to many countries. Dad sends Freddie a new toy from each country he is visiting so he knows he’s thinking of him. One day Freddie misses his dad so much, he decides to make up a story about each animal toy as if it was alive. Fully illustrated to surprise and delight, Freddie’s stories are rhyming verses full of fun, mischievousness and a special love of nature.

Everyone's favorite toys are hitting the big screen! But the fun can be taken home and enjoyed over and over again with this brand-new storybook collection, timed to the release of Disney*Pixar's Toy Story 4! Tag along for a talent show in Bonnie’s room, follow Woody on his Wild West rescue, join the gang for a frighteningly fun adventure, party with Rex in his over-the-top bath-time bash, and even more! Meet new friends and visit with your old pals in this fun-filled volume featuring eighteen stories packed with friendship, adventure, and toy mania.

Jump into three stories starring Buzz, Woody, and the rest of the toys from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story! Kids ages 3–7 will love this hardcover 3-D storybook collection featuring the Toy Story Toons Hawaiian Vacation, Small Fry, and Partysaurus Rex—all in 3-D with a pair of 3-D glasses!

Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children inspire authors to tell. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a great range of disciplines examine fictional toys as protectors of the children they love, as heroes of their own stories, and as champions for the greater good in the writings of A.A. Milne, Hans Christian Andersen, William Joyce, John Lasseter and many others.

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives, giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realism’s solid objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first study to take these scenes of anger and overwhelm seriously, challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes, theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about child’s play that in turn provides a deep context for understanding both the “development” of the novel and the keen British uptake of Melanie Klein’s and Anna Freud’s interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its object-mediated manifestations.