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Edited by Denise Little In the Introduction to The Magic Toybox, editor Denise Little remembers her childhood love of toys and her childhood belief that they all contained a spark of magic, a life beyond the toybox. That is the basis for all 13 tales in The Magic Toybox. I love short story collections for their ability to serve up such incredibly varied tone and style of stories unified by a single theme, and the stories in this collection are wonderfully different. Jody Lynn Nye’s "The Revenge of Chatty Cathy" made me laugh out loud (just a note, when planning a car jacking, always check for dolls in the backseat). Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s "Losing Dolly" made me cry and Mel Odom’s "The Affair of the Wooden Boy" gave me a nice case of the creeps, I was sorry when it was over. I can’t say I loved every story - both "Roadshow" and "Cubby Grumbles Makes a Change" seemed like stories that would have been better if they didn’t run on quite so much. But I really connected with the book’s theme and found all the varied explorations of it fascinating. |
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The Magic Toybox