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    Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
    Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
    Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
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    Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic

    Written by Emily Jenkins

    Narrated by Melanie Martinez

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning author Emily Jenkins' Toys Go Out was both a Junior Library Guild and Book-of-the- Month Club selection. Lumphy the stuffed buffalo, Stingray the stuffed stingray, and Plastic the plastic thing have many wondrous adventures and learn all about the world. But will they ever discover what kind of toy Plastic truly is? ". bound to be a favorite ."-School Library Journal, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 11, 2008
    ISBN9781440797477
    Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
    Author

    Emily Jenkins

    Emily Jenkins is the author of two previous books about Hank and Inkling. She also wrote the chapter books Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home, plus a lot of picture books, including Lemonade in Winter, That New Animal, and Skunkdog. She bakes excellent pumpkin bread and, when swimming, wears a purple swim cap and blue goggles.

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    • 3/5
      Toys Go Out is a middle grade novel that follows 3 toy friends that come to life when their little girl goes to sleep. Lumphy (stuffed buffalo), Sting Ray (dry clean only), and Plastic (a bouncy ball) are the main characters with distinct (albeit simple) personalities. The primary story revolves around the desire to be the toy that gets to sleep in the little girl’s bed at night (sound familiar?). Some of the adventures include a trip in the washing machine and being grabbed by a garbage shark (maybe the best descriptor of a dog ever) at the beach. I’m not sure why I thought reading another book about toys coming to life was going to be a vastly different reading experience from The Doll People. [Spoiler alert: It wasn’t.] However, if you're looking for a fairly straightforward reading experience for your 10-12 year old then this will fit the bill nicely. 5/10 because I love a good sarcastic toy.Topics discussed: insecurities, search for identity, and finding your place.
    • 4/5
      This is a fun story about the life of toys in one little girls room. The toys are a little more brazen and teaches about the importance of being kind and truthful. Everyday lessons for children.
    • 5/5
      The adventures and relationships of three slightly clueless toys - a stingray (plush, but dry clean only), a buffalo named Lumphy, and a ball named Plastic -- who help each other learn about the world. It is a very funny read aloud. The fourth graders really like it.
    • 5/5
      1/2012 Yep, I still love this book.

      1/2007 I loved this book. It's simply written, engaging, and so funny that it will be hard to read aloud without dissolving into helpless giggling. Charmingly illustrated by Paul Zelinsky, this book is a little slice-of-life from the floor of a 6-year-old girl's bedroom. The toys are charmingly characterized, and their adventures terribly amusing. Read this one to your favorite kid, I think you will both enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      Six stories plus three friends plus one little girl the friends all love, add up to a charming story just right for readers ready to move up to chapter books. StingRay has been around the longest and the other toys all look up to her. After all, she knows so much more than they do - like what it means to be a grown-up: “You’re not a grown-up until you’re at least eight…[then:] you can drive a limousine, and brush your teeth without being reminded, and you can read all the words in the dictionary, no matter how long.” Lumphy is a little buffalo who tries to be tough like a buffalo should be, but really, how could anyone face the terror of the washing machine? And Plastic is….well, Plastic isn’t actually quite sure what she is, but she’ll do whatever she can to find out. Jenkins packs plenty of gentle humor into her imagined secret life for these toys. As a bonus, since each chapter is a self-contained story, this is a perfect read-aloud for a class or at bedtime. Follow StingRay, Lumphy and Plastic on even more adventures by checking out the sequel Toy Dance Party!

      Also includes pencil illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky.

      June 2010 Cover 2 Cover selection.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous read-aloud. I use it with second-graders. They love it! It's funny, has great characterization, and has lots of life-lessons about friendship. Love, love, love!
    • 3/5
      Cute short read, perfect for kids who are just getting familiar with the rhythm of reading. Each chapter focuses on the three main characters, or in this case, the three main toys beloved by the little girl. Set from a point of view similar to Toy Story where the owners of the toys remains fairly out of the main story. Each chapter will let the reader get to know each character and what they're personality and philosophies may be. While I will give the author credit for creating strong distinctive personalities for all three, I was a bit surprised how realistic some of them were. The know-it-all attitude of Stingray was off-putting yet the author still made her likable enough. Lumphy's relationship with Frank, the washing machine, amuses me terribly.
    • 4/5
      Join Lumphy, Stingray, Plastic, and their friends in their adventures. This is a lovely little book for children just moving into chapter books. The text is widely spaced, making for a quick read, and the occasional line break-ups remind one of how a child can sometimes ramble in a story. The toys are like little kids themselves, curious and naïve, making them easily appealing to readers. The pictures, black and white, are drawn in a simple, cartoonish style children will adore. The author brings the toys to life, literally and metaphorically, giving each a distinct personality that makes the reader care about what happens next to them. While children will enjoy imagining the secret life of their toys, even the towel and washing machine, given personalities just as full as the toys, will capture their hearts.
    • 4/5
      This book emphasizes a cute relation between kids and their toys. This book targets young beginning chapter book readers. A cute chaming story that children will love.
    • 5/5
      Toys Go Out is a delightful book for young children. As I read it I was reminded of a movie I once watched called Toy Story. Both the movie and the book related to one another in a way. Instead of having Buzz Light Year and Woody there was Lumphy, Sting Ray, and Plastic! It was a great story with minimal illustrations.
    • 3/5
      This book tells the story of the secret lives of toys, similar to books like The Velveteen Rabbit or movies like Toy Story. The book presents six vignettes of the various adventures of three of the Little Girl’s toys – Lumphy (a stuffed buffalo), StingRay (a plush stingray), and Plastic (a rubber ball). The stories are cute, although full of misinformation (such as jellyfish are made of grape and raspberry jelly and sharks eat garbage), which is perhaps less relevant to a work that requires complete suspension of reality. Also, I was not in love with the writing style – it is not particularly spectacular and StingRay’s dialogue is written in broken lines as if it is poetry when it is not, which quickly became annoying. Zelinsky’s pictures are lovely, although there are not many of them. Overall, it’s not a bad book but there was nothing so wonderful about it that I would recommend it.
    • 3/5
      There’s always a book that looks like it will be the best; Toys Go Out was the book I thought I’d like best. Actually, I wasn’t taken with the story. A group of toys have little adventures. Perhaps it was too close to reading the book about the adventurous wooden doll from the 1920’s.
    • 4/5
      This contemporary realistic fiction book is about a friendship between three toys. A stuffed buffalo, Lumphy, a stuffed stingray, Stingray, and a rubber ball, Plastic. An adventure is told about each of them, with a short at the end. The girl that owns them is having a birthday and they need to get her a present. But, they have no money or a way to get to the store. Hmmm...what will they do?My oldest son enjoyed us reading this together. I asked him if he would want his stuffed animals to come alive and he said yes. He thought it would be easier to play with them and he wouldn't have to do the voices. I don't blame him, I use to wish the same thing.As an extension, I would have the students write a short story of one of their toys adventures and then share it with the class. I would have the students do research on a buffalo, stingray, etc. to compare/contrast the book characters to the real-life ones.
    • 4/5
      A fun adventure of 3 toys who are taken to school, the beach and the little girls birthday party. Stingray is a little insecure, but thinks she is very knowledgeable. Lumphy (the buffalo) is adventurous, and plastic (aka ball) is a very happy toy! A super fun adventure! My favorite part is when plastic goes to see Tuk Tuk the towel and finds out what he really is, a ball!
    • 4/5
      It's hard to say refuse a book with a fifteen-word subtitle, especially if tailing a three-word, barely-a-sentence title. There is no need to introduce the characters here, as the subtitle meets that need. The tone of Toys Go Out is light and the reading is easy, but the subject matter is much meatier than mere amusement. The characters' perceptions of their world are funny, and somewhat tainted by StingRay's "knowledge." For example, when Plastic meets a dog on the beach, she confuses it for a shark (a "possible shark" is what she calls it).As we get to know each of the characters, they get to know themselves. This is mostly done in humorous ways (e.g., Plastic tries to understand what she is by consulting a dictionary) but the longing and self-doubt of their identity crises is realized. StingRay becomes downright dark at one point. Although she is "dry clean only," she decides to test whether she can float in the bathtub. She cannot float, and as the water climbs higher above her, she suffers a loss of faith in herself. She says, "I'm a sinker, and a stinker, too, and if I rot and drown and dissolve in this tub, it is probably better than I deserve." Whoa.The content is otherwise benign, but there is a cadence to the text that I never quite got a hold on. It happens when StingRay conveys her worldly knowledge; the sentences would be separated into multiple lines which seemed like it may have been either poetic or a list of some sort, but neither "poetry" nor "lists" quite explain what was happening in those lines. The good news is, it isn't bothersome–the line breaks themselves or not knowing the reason behind them; you just keep busy enjoying the ride. And the chapters work as standalone stories, so you can take the book in whatever doses you like.
    • 5/5
      Summary:Toys go Out is a great story about a little girl's toys and the adventures they go on throughout the book. The get into trouble, learn life lessons, and learn about themselves and how they fit into the world in which they exist. It is a great story with adorable pictures to go along with the story.Review:I read this book as a part of a class and loved it. It is simple and lovely but has a great underlying message about friendship and love. I would certainlly read it to kids at school but find it too young for my kids at home. K-4 seems about right.
    • 5/5
      The title pretty much sums up the content of this book. In a series of vignette-type stories, the toys are taken to school, put through the washing machine, go to the beach, and plan a birthday party (among other things). It's a sweet book and funny because the toys sound like children themselves (referring to a subliminal message as a "submarine message", etc.). It would be a great read for a young child with an advanced reading level, although older children would enjoy getting the jokes. The audio is perfect for family car trips with young kids.
    • 5/5
      Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.
    • 5/5
      The young girls toys can speak to one another and have quite an adventure.