Review: Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stringray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins

Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stringray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins. A Toys Go Out Book.

Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Date: September 2011
List Price: $16.99
ISBN-13: 9780375862007

Review: Plush, Adventure, and Trials. Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stringray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic , a book written by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, is an amazing book. It is the third book in the Toys Go Out series. The main character is an intelligent Stingray named StingRay.

Toys Come Home is all about a female plush Stingray named StingRay and her life at a little girl's house. She meets many new friends, and ends up losing some. When StingRay first views the girl's house, she is clueless about everything. She is aided by Bobby Dot, also a new toy. As she goes through her life in the girl's house, she finds out everything is not easy. As the girl gets older in this book, StingRay learns many new rules about the house. Overtime, she meets new friends with whom she can proudly show her knowledge, such as Lumphy the stuffed buffalo, and Plastic the bouncing ball. So all in all, StingRay's life is very interesting.

I loved Toys Come Home . The only part that I disliked was that it was too short. It tells all about toys who are fictionally alive and how they live their lives. This book is mostly targeted to children, in that it is all about the secret lives of a child's toys. The thing that attracted me was how the toys come to life. They do many extraordinary actions that are hard to believe. One example is when Lumphy is battling Pumpkinfacehead, the cat, to save the toys. Filled with adventure, excitement, new friendships, and even sadness, Toys Come Home will touch the heart of anyone with an interest in extraordinary fictional stories. It will most likely catch the eyes and imagination of young children because they often imagine what their toys are doing when they are not around. So in conclusion, Toys Come Home is a fascinating and interesting novel.

Review written by Anjan (6th grade student).

We would like to thank Random House for providing a copy of Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stringray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic for this review.

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