December 13th, 2009
A Huge Hit in Our House!. My 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter demanded I read this to them again. This is the first time they have ever requested a chapter book be read a second time. They wait for their favorite lines and speak them along with me, laughing the whole time. My daughter plans to write a letter to the author asking for more stories about the toys , also a first. What a wonderful book!
Sweet and Surprising. The short title, “Toys Go Out,” intrigued me enough to pull the book off the shelf at our library. The loopy picture on the cover and the expanded title ending in “Someone Called Plastic” was the clincher. The patheticness of being simply “someone called plastic” and not even knowing what kind of toy you are! The story includes Plastic’s eventual self-discovery and the surprising adventures of the toys in question, with wonderful surprises in the details. The chapters include “In The Backpack, Where It Is Very Dark” and “The Terrifying Bigness Of The Washing Machine,” which very much gives you a toy’s perspective of the world and how it is different from our own.
Both our kids (8 and 10) loved this book, as did both of the grownups. My son’s 3rd-grade teacher bought it for the class after reading it on our recommendation. We loved it.
best book ever. I think this is the best book ever!It will make you laugh out loud!I’ve read it once but i want to read it again and again.I know Emily Jenkins won’t write a sequel,but i wish she would!The funniest character is plastic.
Emma,age 7
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