Toys Physical items used in play. An estimated 2.6 billion toys are sold in the United States each year. Toys can support cognitive growth, development of fine motor and gross motor skills, improve problem-solving and attention. The child may find...

The term "toy" generally applies to any object used by children in play. However, there is a huge business in creating objects, usually in miniature, designed specifically for children's play. These toys generally model adult...

A toy is an object used in play. Toys are usually associated with children and pets, but it is not unusual for adult humans and some non-domesticated animals to play with toys. Many items are manufactured to serve as toys, but items produced for other...

Move Over, Barney. Here Come the Flintstones. And the Shadow. And Simba the Lion King. Toymakers Want to Cash In on the Heroes of Pop Culture - and the Movie Industry Wants to Cash In on the Heroes of Pop Culture - and the...

Toy, book firms try to squelch echoes of Sept. 11 Children's games, books had featured hijackings, missile-firing giants By JOHN KELLY Washington Post Tuesday, November 6, 2001 On Sept. 11, Scholastic Books realized it had a big problem: It...

Mattel Inc. on Tuesday recalled more than 172,000 Fisher-Price kitchen toys in the United States and Europe because several children choked and gagged on small, detachable parts.The company has received 48 reports of small parts separating from these toys, which feature a sink, a refrigerator...

Toys "R" Us recalled about 16,000 Chinese-made Elite Operations toys because of lead contamination, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday.The military-style toys are recalled because their surface paints contain excessive levels of lead, which is toxic if ingested by young children. Under current regulations,...