Toys Come Home

Zusatztext Praise for the Toys trilogy: "This charming book makes ideal bedtime reading." The Wall Street Journal A sure hit for reading aloud and a classic in the making. The San Francisco Chronicle "Jenkins deftly penetrates the natural anxieties of childhoodthe phobias! the insecurities! the self-doubtswithout playing them down." The New York Times Book Review Has the nostalgic feel of a children's book from an earlier timepart Winnie the Pooh ! part Hitty and part bedtime book. A perfect selection for family read-alouds. Bookpage A blend of Toy Story and the stories of Jonny Gruelle and A.A. Milne. Young readers will enjoy exploring the warm! secret world of toys. Kirkus Reviews There's a heavy fragrance of A.A. Milne to the narrative! not just in concept but in style and in details such as Plastic's fondness for Pooh-like hums! but the book has a cuddly sturdiness all its own. The Bulletin "A timeless story of adventure and friendship to treasure aloud or independently. Wholly satisfying! this may well leave readers expecting to see the Velveteen Rabbit peeking in the bedroom window and smiling approvingly." Booklist! Starred "An utterly delightful peek into the secret lives of toys. Here is a book bound to be a favorite with any child who has ever adored an inanimate object." School Library Journal! Starred You'll love Lumphy! and StingRay! and Plastic. You'll laugh over their choice of birthday presents and hold your breath over Plastic's encounter with the Possible Shark. Most of all! you'll never forget these three. I know I won't. Patricia Reilly Giff! two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Informationen zum Autor Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky Klappentext Fans of acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Award-winner Zelinsky's "Toys Go Out" will happily discover how Lumphy! StingRay! and Plastic came to live with the Girl in six linked adventures. Illustrations. CHAPTER ONE In Which There Is Nowhere Nice to Sleep StingRay has missed the birthday party. She didn't mean to. It was her first party, first party ever in the world to be invited toand she missed it. She didn't even know she was missing it. She didn't know anything about the party until now, when it is already over. She can tell the people are disappointed in her. Here is what happened: StingRay woke up. She had never been awake before, but she could hear a scissor scoring the top of a cardboard box above her head. A box from a toy company. StingRay was squashed in that box, inside yet another box wrapped in shiny blue paper and tied with pink ribbon. She woke with a feeling that she'd been waiting, asleep, for a very long time. She dreamed while she slept: the same dream over and over, about a wooden crate filled with other plush stingrays, packed with flippers touching flippers, tummies touching tails. It was a mellow, cozy dream. The stingrays were still. The sounds were muffled. A dream of something like a family, StingRay thinks. Though she isn't entirely sure what a family is. The word just came to her and she used it, inside her head. I am an intelligent stingray, she thinks to herself. To just have a word come to me and to know it's the right word. In fact, now that I consider it, I know a lot of things! For instance, I know that I'm a stingray, and that a stingray is an extra-special kind of fish, and that blue is the very best color anything can possibly be, and that people are people, and kids are baby people, and that a kid would probably like to play with me someday. I know all this stuff without being told. It's practically like magic, the knowledge I have. I hope the rest of the wor...

Praise for the Toys trilogy:

"This charming book makes ideal bedtime reading." —*The Wall Street Journal

*“A sure hit for reading aloud and a classic in the making.” —*The San Francisco Chronicle

• "Jenkins deftly penetrates the natural anxieties of childhood—the phobias, the insecurities, the self-doubts—without playing them down." —The New York Times Book Review

“Has the nostalgic feel of a children’s book from an earlier time—part Winnie the Pooh, part Hitty and part bedtime book. A perfect selection for family read-alouds.” —Bookpage

“A blend of Toy Story and the stories of Jonny Gruelle and A.A. Milne. Young readers will enjoy exploring the warm, secret world of toys.” —*Kirkus Reviews

*“There’s a heavy fragrance of A.A. Milne to the narrative, not just in concept but in style and in details such as Plastic’s fondness for Pooh-like “hums,” but the book has a cuddly sturdiness all its own.” —*The Bulletin

• "A timeless story of adventure and friendship to treasure aloud or independently. Wholly satisfying, this may well leave readers expecting to see the Velveteen Rabbit peeking in the bedroom window and smiling approvingly." —Booklist, Starred

"An utterly delightful peek into the secret lives of toys. Here is a book bound to be a favorite with any child who has ever adored an inanimate object." —School Library Journal, Starred

“You’ll love Lumphy, and StingRay, and Plastic. You'll laugh over their choice of birthday presents and hold your breath over Plastic’s encounter with the Possible Shark. Most of all, you'll never forget these three. I know I won’t.” —Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor-winning author

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Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

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Fans of acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Award-winner Zelinsky's "Toys Go Out" will happily discover how Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic came to live with the Girl in six linked adventures. Illustrations.

Résumé
“A bit like the great movie Toy Story and a bit like the wonderful Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. This is a great family book.” —The Washington Post *on *Toys Go Out, the companion to Toys Come Home
 
Here is the final book in the highly acclaimed Toys trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toy Dance Party and chronicles the unforgettable adventures of three brave and loving toys.
 
Fans of the series, as well as newcomers, will happily discover how Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic came to live with the Girl. In six linked adventures, readers will also learn how the one-eared Sheep became one-eared, watch a cranky toy meet an unfortunate end, and best of all, learn why it’s okay for someone you truly love to puke on you. This is perhaps the most charming of three inimitably charming books destined to become classics.

A *Wall Street Journal *Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection
 
"A timeless story of adventure and friendship to treasure aloud or independently. Wholly satisfying, this may well leave readers expecting to see the Velveteen Rabbit peeking in the bedroom window and smiling approvingly." —Booklist, Starred

“The best talking toy stories since Winnie-the-Pooh.” —Kirkus Reviews

"A book destined to be read to children at bedtime for decades (nay, centuries?) to come. It is rare that prequels exceed the books they are meant to simply introduce, but this is one of the few." —Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production

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CHAPTER ONE

In Which There Is Nowhere Nice to Sleep

StingRay has missed the birthday party.

She didn’t mean to. It was her first party, first party ever in the world to be invited to—and she missed it.

She didn’…