The Magic Toybox

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In this time of electronic wonders, many of the toys we see around us almost seem alive - battery-powered and given a sort of microchip induced artificial intelligence. But what if toys really could come to life through magic and not technology, through the love and belief of the children who played with them? What if their responses weren't programmed and predictable?

In this all-original anthology, fourteen literary toymakers take up the challenge of filling readers' fantastical toyboxes with such intriguing playthings as - The 1961 Hubley Mr. Magoo car, complete with tiny Mr. Magoo, just wanted to get away from the Old Things Roadshow and get home to the woman he'd been stolen from. A child salve in ancient Rome, Lucius dreamed of owning a wooden gladiator. Could an act of magic or divine intervention see his dream fulfilled? Could a ghost who'd found a refuge in a what-not doll solve a casa of unrequited love?

Roadshow by Jean Rabe
Fix by Diane Duane
Cubby Grumbles Makes a Change by Esther M. Friesner
Call of the Track Ahead by Dean Wesley Smith
What-Not Doll by Karen Everson
Little Pig, Berry Brown, and the Hard Moon by Jay Lake
Longest Ladder by Peter Morwood
Revenge of Chatty Cathy by Jody Lynn Nye
Jack Tar by Gail Selinger
Danny's Very Long Trip by Mike Moscoe
Quoth the Screaming Chicken by David Bischoff
Losing Dolly by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Affair of the Wooden Boy by Mel Odom
Lady Roxanne Le Belle by Laura Resnick