Out of the Garden Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing

"A highly disturbing analysis of children's play ever since toys became big business ... An insight into the role of marketing and television that no parent can afford to ignore."--"The Times" "An interesting and provocative book. It alerts and sensitises one to to things which should have been obvious but weren't--like the increasingly sinister co-ordination between media products and the toy industry."--"Observer" "An invaluable analysis of child culture's long development."--"Voice Literary Supplement"