Toy Dance Party (Toys Go Out)

This is such a fun series! It's a lot like Toy Story, where toys come alive and have adventures after their owner leaves the room. My youngest couldn't stop laughing, especially at Lumphey the Buffalo. I particularly love "Plastic" discovering what she is.

1/2012 Stet

7/2008 This follow-up to [b:Toys Go Out|24686|Toys Go Out Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic|Emily Jenkins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320460084s/24686.jpg|25521] was fun, though it suffers in comparison. I found it a little too preachy, a little too obvious, and just not as joyful. The undertone of snark that I adored in TGO was missing. There were moments of delight, though, when our friends Stingray and Lumphy get in over their fuzzy little heads, and their hatred of Barbie made me laugh.

Another winner, with sly humor and childlike sweetness.

This is the continued adventures of the toys in Toys Go Out. The toys are faced with the fact that the little girl is growing up. The little girl goes on winter vacation without them. While she is gone the toys brave a blizzard, save the toy mice, and throw an all night dance party with the washing machine.

This book manages to have female characters without making it about a single girl.

Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic

The Toys Are Left In
In Which There Are Wonderful Costumes and Violence Occurs
The Garbage-Eating Shark (Which is Not the Same as the Possible Shark)
Concerning That Plump Mouse Bonkers, the Vacuum Cleaner, and a Friendship Between Fish
In Which There Is A Sleepover and Somebody Needs Repair
Let's Do Our Nails

In these "further adventures," Honey grows less interested in her formerly beloved Stingray, Lumphy, and Plastic in favor of barbies (who don't talk) and nail polish. Frank - the washing machine in the basement - worries over the fate of the dryer. A new arrival, a rubber shark, makes waves.