Hello girls & boys! : a New Zealand toy story / David Veart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veart, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toys--New Zealand--History.

Toys.

Toy industry--New Zealand--History.

Toy industry.

Games--New Zealand--History.

Games.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Games--History.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Toys are fun – but they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to twenty-first-century gamers. With its memories of knucklebones and double happys, golliwogs and tin canoes, marbles and Meccano, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees, this is a seriously fun New Zealand toy story.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Out of the Toy Box 1: Toys from the Waka; Flying a Kite; On Top; Sharing: Toys for Māori and Pākehā; Out of the Toy Box 2: New Arrivals, 1840-1900; Required on the Voyage; Toys on the Manifest; Looking Good: Optical Toys; Entertaining the Wild Children; Fortune-Telling Toys; Beloved and Broken Dolls; Sailing Boats and Riding Horses; Playing Together: Marbles and Knucklebones; Out of the Toy Box 3: Toys in Depression and War, 1900-1945; Making It: Meccano in New Zealand; Fathers and Sons; On Track: Hornby Trains; Dolls'' Houses; Paper Dolls

Dolls and the Cult of DomesticityPainted Pieces of Wood; Toys to the Rescue; War and the Consolation of Toys; Getting Around: Tin Canoes and Trolleys; Out of the Toy Box 4: A Golden Age? 1946-1960s; Walter Nash Meets Walter Lines; Facing the Great Post-War Train Famine; That Bee; Miniature Modern: Dolls'' Houses After 1945; The New Zealand Board of Trade and the Toy Inquiry; Telling Toy Tales; Toy Makers in Fortress New Zealand; Luvme and Cuddly Toys for All; Good Golly?; Plasticine, Playway and Toys to Teach; Crazes: The Hula Hoop, the Coonskin Cap and the Return of the Shanghai

Come Fly With Me: AeromodellingOut of the Toy Box 5: Toys to the World, 1960s-1970s; The Big Four: Lincoln, Tonka, Torro and the End of Lines Bros; Kiddibricks; The Small Fish: Swimming Hard Right to the End; Māori Dolls; Rummaging Through the Ricies: Cereal Toys; Tiny Toys; Getting Around 2: Skateboards; Out of the Toy Box 6: The Elves and the Rogernomes, 1980s; The New Hard Sell; The War Against War Toys; Garbage Pail Kids; Off With a Bang!; Counter Culture: The Toy Shops; Slot Cars; Dolls Grow Up and the Rise and Rise of Girls'' Toys; Brand Power

Out of the Toy Box 7: End Games, 1990s-2000sLittle Wars, Little Armies; The Great Survivor: Thos Holdworth and Sons; Conclusion: Toys in the Joined-up World; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Index; Imprint; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9781775587637

1775587630

9781775587620

1775587622

OCLC:

892239219