We have wanted to find a good and inexpensive rocking horse for some time now, and have finally settled on one: The schaukelpferd “Max” is found within the Toddler Toys category. I love its simple yet evocative profile and unadorned style, and it is of a handsome beechwood that will complement any room.

The first of our new arrivals is online: The marvelous standard marble run by Cuboro of Switzerland. I have loved this marble run since the first time I saw it: the wooden blocks are beautifully cut, and the whole concept is immensely pleasing. You can make elementary runs and then, as you learn the fundamentals, […]

We finally stock the two toys that really sparked our interest in wooden toys: the Ostheimer Brown Cow and Selecta Spielzeug’s Girali grasping toy. These were the first wooden toys we gave to our eldest son, toys that at that time were very hard to find anywhere in America. (The brown cow was also […]

Our most recent shipment from Germany has docked and is waiting to clear Customs: With luck it will be here by the week’s end. We have many new items this year, and several new companies to represent. I don’t want to spoil our surprises: come back often and see what’s new in our New Arrivals […]

We have just added some new baby and toddler toys from Selecta Spielzeug, and will add more as the year progresses. This German toy company has won quite a following in recent years, and has had many of its toys awarded the Spiel Gut seal for good toys.

This is the season of toy fairs, when the workshops and manufacturers reveal their new designs for the coming year. It also can be, unfortunately, the time when we discover that old favorites have been “retired”, or put out of production. In some happy cases the designs might simply be reworked: 2005 saw new Ostheimer […]

We’ve been reading the The Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime, which inspired me to take this picture as a play suggestion with Ostheimer figures. It turns out that I’m not the only one with this idea: a customer told me the other day that her kids always refer to the Ostheimer lion as “Aslan”. It […]

Tho’ Halloween is now two weeks past, we continue to sell the wonderful hats and cloaks by Fairy Finery, and other dress-up items we stock. I’m glad, for from our own experience as parents, I know how much pleasure these costumes bring to our boys year round. They are, in fact, the most indispensible and […]

We had some friends–the parents of two young boys–over last night for dinner, and the conversation eventually turned to toys and what our kids play with. They have just moved, and though the toys are finally unpacked again, they found that their children’s attentions were held for hours by the moving boxes. We agreed […]

As I was putting our youngest in his car seat, I discovered that a toy he loves to play with there had broken. It is an old toy (a mouse with rattling rings around his body) and has already been through two brothers, so it really isn’t a surprise–his favorite thing is to bang it […]