My toddler doesn't get a look in! (Toybox)

Member Name: mreyre

Product:	Toybox
Date:	15/07/01 (124 review reads)
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Advantages: Lots of familiar TV characters, Good free gifts, 99p!

Disadvantages: You might end up like me, there are so many children's comica around that you will be conned into buying one every time you're in Tescos!

My daughter is now 2 and-three-quarters as I write this review and into EVERYTHING! She spends far too long watching videos or children's TV, but does like a variety of programmes, not just one or two favourites. In fact, her favourite videos at the moment are "Favourite Friends" which is a compilation of shows like Bananas in Pyjamas, Tots TV and Dream Street, and "Toybox" which is a compilation of various popular Children's BBC programmes.

These include the cartoon-type programmes like Angelmouse, William's Wish Wellingtons and Spider, as well as the modelling-type animations like Bob The Builder, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and the like.

She is also getting into reading and writing and can recognise some letters, and hold a pencil or crayon really quite well. Now, her Mum and Dad are both primary school teachers, so you would expect that!! Seriously though, without wishing to bombard her with all sorts of information, magazines like this one (available from all good newsagents and supermarkets) provide a familiar background to learning, through the characters in the popular programmes.

Toybox magazine, as well as giving variety for the children, is also just about the cheapest on the market at the moment, with most magazines being around £1.35. This one is a much more reasonable 99p, so into the trolley it goes along with my copy of "Computeractive"!

Inside, the comic is packed full of stories. comic strips and puzzles, as well as colouring in pictures and competitions.

This comic also has quite a good range of free gifts on the front - this month it's a pull-string bag which my Lucy has put all her little play food in and has spent the evening pretending to go shopping, we haven't even read the comic yet! Well worth 99p of my weekly shopping money!

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