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Touchable and Teachable, Toybooks are Big Business

Baby books have gotten way weird. Today’s bookstore shelves spill over with tot-oriented “toybooks” shaped like cats, dogs, hens, horses, lions, elephants, insects and other things… —Linton Weeks —Touchable and Teachable, Toybooks are Big Business (Washington Post (registration; will expire))

Can’t be a toy… can’t be a book. Must be… a toybook! (Thanks for the suggestion, Rosemary.)

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