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The Toymaker: Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself | 
 enlarge | Author: Marilyn Scott-waters
Publisher: Scott-Waters Design
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 203270
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 20
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0975988409
EAN: 9780975988404
ASIN: 0975988409
Publication Date: July 2004
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Book Description
The Toymaker: Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself contains the following toys, a Sun Box, Spinners, Marble Mice, Tooth Fairy Gazebo, The Happy Bus, A Bug Box, A Bear Wagon, Florimel the Magnificent, A Butterfly Basket, A Window to Fairyland, A Penny Aeroplane, The Toy Shop, A Dream Theater, two Penny Butterflies and a Cootie Catcher with instructions. The toys are simple enough for younger children yet whimsical to intrigue older kids, as well as the young at heart.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Beautiful and fun! March 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is beautiful. The projects are fun and entertaining. This book provides wonderful, wholesome activity for the whole family! It is well worth the price, and makes an excellent gift for any age.
I love this author/illustrator November 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't own this book--yet-- but I know this author's work. I frequent her site, and she is so very creative. Her artwork is a refreshing throwback to a long past era, with modern and beautiful colors. I LOVE that her site allows your to sample some of her brilliantly simple ideas. They are engaging enough to entertain middleschoolers, yet simple enough that my six year old can do many of them. Very awesome. Her sweet little fairies and beautiful cornocopias, the flowing swirls on the candy canes and fun "marble mice" and such from the site are reason enough to support her creativity and buy this book!
The Toymaker: Paper Toys that you can make yourself December 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even old people like me can put these paper toys together, even if it means taking extra days to figure them out. I simply love these toys, and the people I make them for enjoy them. When she first brought the toys out online and I tried cutting them out and putting them together, it was difficult, as I am not a smart little one, so I asked her to put directions with the pictures, so dumb old men could figure out what went where. Since then I have made many of her paper toys. I encourage people of all ages to buy the book and make the toys. Even those with arthritis.
This is a great way to enjoy the little things in life.
An enchanting throwback to yesteryear December 19, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Making toys, boxes and knick knacks out of sturdy cardstock, with pre-printed illustrations, used to be how my grandmother and her siblings passed their free time when they were children. My grandmother said they would spend hours building entire cities out of paper, and I can see why - there's nothing quite so satisfying to a child as being able to play with his own handiwork.
That's where this book comes in. Mrs. Scott-Waters' book is unique both in content and in presentation. Her artistic style reflects 1920s and 1930s style line-art and water color, finely detailed and filled with little embellishments. The pictures found in this book are whimsical and delicate all at the same time, and the finished products are, to a child's mind, extremely practical. Children love having boxes and things with mysterious compartments, and the toys and contraptions that result from this book's projects don't disappoint in that regard.
Most of the included projects are so simple to put together that any child old enough to handle a pair of scissors can at least help out, and with a little help, most anyone can bring forth a relatively sophisticated end result =) But they're so intricate-looking and there is so much detail in the artwork and the mechanisms that even adults will find them interesting and entertaining. They're definitely a breath of fresh air for parents or caregivers seeking to do a worthwhile, enriching arts-and-crafts project together with children!
My only complaint is that on her web site, Mrs. Scott-Waters has a brilliant paper-doll-driven fairytale about otters, a carousel, fairies and a flying fish car on the way to a toymaker's ball. This needs to be published in a second book! It's at least as amazing as the projects in this one!
I do disagree with other reviewers that it's fun for "a" rainy afternoon - it's impossible to do all of them in one sitting, and it's just as well. You will want the fun that this slim little volume contains to last a good long while.
 The Toymaker- Paper Toys September 17, 2005
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I tried to print the free paper toys from the website but the quality is mediocre compared to the book. Great fun for a rainy day-even for adults!!The artwork is magical and printed on nice card stock for building toys.
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