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Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys

Smart Play + Smart Parents = Smart Kids. Stevanne Auerbach, PhD, writes with the rare power of original analysis. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is the most significant, thorough, thoughtful book for parents wishing to match the right toy to the right stage of their child’s development. Follow Dr. Toy’s prescription for a happy, playful, skill building childhood.

— RICHARD C. LEVY

Toy Inventor/Author, TOY AND GAME INVENTOR’S HANDBOOK

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is the best tool out there for anyone who wants to know the role of toys and play. I’ve quoted from it in Baby Magazine and Parenting. My only regret is this book wasn’t around when my kids were young.

— J.J. DESPAIN

Journalist

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is one smart book.

— SUSAN M. LAPINSKI

Family Journalist Former Editor, Sesame Street Parents Magazine

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a must read and also an invaluable research tool. Not only does this book review toys but it’s a fun read and educates parents to be a “Play Guide.” I highly recommend this book.

— RUSSELL LEVINE

Content Developer, Daily Bread

With over 50 years of experience in the toy industry, Dr. Stevanne Auerbach has dedicated her life to helping parents create meaningful play experiences for their children. Her extensive knowledge and passion for everything involving play and toys is evidenced in this thoughtfully written, easy to read book, full of play ideas, as well as tips and advice on everything from toy safety to toy storage. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is more than just a guide to choosing the best toys, it is a timeless resource on play and how play contributes to children’s social, cognitive, physical, and emotional development.

— JENNIE ITO, PHD

Play and Toy Consultant

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys strips away marketing blitz, helps parents, and teachers, make informed choices as Dr. Toy provides a highly refined way to evaluate PQ—Play Quotient—play being learning, for children of all ages.

— MICHAEL MENDIZZA

Founder, Touch the Future ww.ttfuture.org

If a parent could just have one book to guide them in rearing their kids, I would strongly suggest Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys.

— JAY BECKWITH

Creative Playground Designer

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a perfect guide for anyone searching for the right toy for creative play, building developmental skills, or fun. It’s easy to use, well organized and invaluable.

— ALICE BERGMAN

West Side Kids Toy Store (ASTRA member) New York, NY

When our staff has questions about developmentally appropriate toys we refer them to Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys. This book is easy to read, and understandable for both for parents and toy industry employees who have a lot to gain by reading this very valuable guide to the world of toys.

— PAM BYARS

Founder, The Ark Toy Store, San Francisco, CAwww.thearktoys.com

I recommend Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys to anyone who takes an active interest in raising inquisitive, creative, and well-balanced children.

— MELISSA BERNSTEIN

www.MelissaAndDoug.com

Being committed to developing playthings that enrich early childhood development for over a decade, I find myself often re-reading Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys for Dr. Toy’s helpful insights and guidance on the intersection between play theory, playthings and kids at play.

— MATTHEW P.D. BROWN

Toy/Play Expert

Dr. Toy’s long and thoughtful immersion in the world of play and toys has established her as the premier authority for this often difficult combination. She “gets it” that the best use of toys is for them to serve as an extension of a child’s own imaginative play drive. She also understands children’s developmental stages so her book, Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is of inestimable help to parents and grandparents as they struggle to make good choices from among the often dazzling and confusing array offered by the toy industry.

— STUART L. BROWN, MD

Founder and President, The National Institute for Play, Author,

PLAY: HOW IT SHAPES THE BRAIN, OPENS THE IMAGINATION, AND INVIGORATES THE SOUL

www.nifplay.org

As a pediatrician, mother of two sets of twins, and toy inventor, I have tremendous respect for the comprehensive, interesting, fact filled, sensible advice and learning Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys provides. This book is a tremendous resource for parents, professionals working with children, and children’s buyers. Play is so important in today’s busy world. Dr. Toy’s approach to understanding play is unique and important. A fabulous book!

— JENNIFER CANTER, MD

Inventor, Play This Way Every Daywww.playthisway.com

As a toy industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, and product development I enjoyed Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys and appreciate the vast array of knowledge, information, and love for toys Dr. Toy shares. A great guide for parents to use when considering purchasing toys. Best of all it reminds us that we’re all kids at heart, and never outgrow the joy of playing. Thank you, Dr. Toy!

— RON CANTOR

President, Rainbow Concepts, Inc.

Play, especially active, creative, and educational play, helps children develop such basic social and academic skills as concentration, problem solving, communication, and cooperation. Factors such as safety, durability, flexibility, and age appropriateness complicate the challenge parents’ face in choosing the right toys for their children. Dr. Auerbach applies her scientific, but not preachy expertise to that challenge.

— KATHRYN CARPENTER

Booklist, American Library Association www.ala.org

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a valuable guide for parents and grandparents to better understand what types of toys provide developmentally appropriate play at each stage from baby to older children with plenty of specific examples of suggested interaction. Just what busy families need these days is to slow down and discover the value and benefit of more play time together.

— HYLA CASS, MD

Author, 8 WEEKS TO VIBRANT HEALTH

www.drcass.com

This book can save your child’s childhood. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is written by Dr. Toy, but the book is much more about smart parenting. Toys, in Dr. Toy’s remarkably informed view, are tools for good parenting, and grandparenting. The right toy is one that helps the parent connect to the child and vice versa.

— BERNARD DEKOVEN

www.aplayfulpath.com

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a very comprehensive book, easy to read for parents and very useful for professionals. Beyond the use of toys and play I would celebrate the attention Dr. Toy gives to family relationships of children’s quality of life turning parents into “Play Guides” — the play guardians of their children. Juego Inteligente/Juguete Apropiado es un libro muy completo de fácil lectura para los padres y muy útil para los profesionales. Más allá del uso de juguetes y juegos, me gustaría celebrar la atención que la Dr. Toy da a las relaciones familiares en la calidad de vida de los niños que convierte a los padres en tutores de juego. Los tutores de juego de sus hijos

— NILDA G. COSCO

Director, Lekotek Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Department of Landscape Architecture North Carolina State University

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys helps parents choose the right toy for the right child at the right time. What’s more, she inspires readers to remember play time happens outside of a child’s toy box. I highly recommend this book.

— SHARON DIMINICO

CEO, Learning Express

Stevanne Auerbach has done it again! She has taken 50 years of research on play, child development, and educational psychology and condensed it into an easy-to-follow guide for parents. Using toys as the focus, “Dr. Toy” takes parents through the reasons why play is essential for their children, how to play with children at different ages, and developmental milestones for each age. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is the perfect book parents can keep handy as a reference as their children grow and develop. It includes play for children with special needs. This book is a great gift for new parents or parents-to-be, it is accurate, timely, and extremely readable.

— SANDRA WAITE-STUPIANSKY, PHD

Professor, Edinboro University of PA

A child’s road to adulthood is a journey where many factors determine the direction and the final outcome. Parents, educators, other children, movies, news, pets, and the overall environment form a child’s perception of his or her world. All these factors are integrated by the child into the play experience which, in turn, has an enormously important role in how the child sees the world and his or her role in it. The importance of toys in this is often misunderstood. Toys are not a substitute for play, they are a link albeit an important one — in the overall process. Also, toys can be a positive or a negative factor in the direction of this process, and that is why the choice of a toy needs to be made with great care. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys helps in making the right choices. She is the only author that gives solid and hands-on advice, and her book is a vital resource to give children a happy and positive play experience.

— LUTZ MULLER, CEO

Klosters Trading, www.klostertrading.com

lmuller@klosterstrading.com

Play is important for growth in all areas, body, mind and social and emotional development. Stevanne Auerbach, PhD understands this well in her lively book Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys written for parents and all who are interested in play.

— DOROTHY SINGER, EDD

Author, Research Scientist

Dept. of Psychology Yale University

Toys are children’s tools and without them they can’t grow and develop. Finding the appropriate toy for your child can be perplexing and is even more difficult when you have a child with a physical disability. Dr. Toy makes finding the appropriate toy an easy process. I highly recommend Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys to parents and professionals alike.

— STEVEN E. KANOR, PHD

President, Toys for Special Childrenwww.toysforspecialchildren.com

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a comprehensive guide regarding toys and play and is a book filled with lots of insightful information.

— KATHLEEN ALFANO

Director, Fisher Price Laboratory, Aurora, NY www.fisher-price.com

In Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys, Dr. Auerbach shows how critical is the time spent playing with children and finding the right toys to stimulate each child’s full development. This is the right book for parents, grandparents and others who work with children to more fully understand and appreciate the value and importance of play. For it is through play that we learn life’s precious lessons. If you only find one book on play, make this it.

— SUZANNE ARMS

Author,

IMMACULATE DECEPTION

www.birthingthefuture.org

The website www.Drtoy.com is a great guide. Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a great gift for all parents. I love how the book is organized, toy guidance, milestones, and all the tips. It stimulates ideas for educating and entertaining children for many years.

— SARA DANZELAUD,

President, Tot Talk, www.tottalk.com

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is an ideal gift for any parent who’s interested in expanding their child’s interests and play opportunities. What Dr. Toy has created is a simple, easy-to-follow guide for selecting age-appropriate toys or play opportunities for your child or grandchild that addresses specific needs of children at different stages of their development. Dr. Toy is experienced, practical, down-to-earth, and seasoned mother and grandmother. She explains the role of play in developing a well rounded, resilient child. She helps parents understand a child’s developmental stages; how to direct play into new areas; how to use products wisely; how to purchase smartly; and why playing together strengthens relationships. I loved this book and highly recommend it for all parents.

— RANNY LEVY

Founder & President, Coalition for Quality Children’s Media KIDS FIRST!

www.kidsfirst.org

Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toys is a great book for parents. It gives parents a guide to what are age appropriate toys for every age group with clear descriptions of the developmental reasons that make it suitable for any particular stage, and is very helpful breaking play activities and playthings into their value for physical intellectual, social/emotional development. Dr. Toy gives recipes for making play materials and suggestions for how parents can have fun with their children without being intrusive. A book all parents should have on their parenting bookshelf.

— DAVID ELKIND, PHD

Professor Emeritus of Child Development, Tufts University, Author, POWER OF PLAY, AND THE HURRIED CHILD