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Author
Series
From an idea to volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Offers a humorous behind-the-scenes look into one of the world's most famous toy companies.
3) Big
Formats
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
4) Big
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Josh is a 12-year-old who makes a wish from an old machine to be big. Not really believing it will work, Josh is very surprised to find himself BIG the next morning. Now he looks like a 30 years old guy, but he still behaves like a boy. He decide to go with his best friend to New York and try to find the machine that can fix his wish. In New York he gets a job in a toy company and develops a romantic crush for a beautiful woman. Now Josh must learn...
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Series
Formats
Description
"In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the innovators of the Slinky, the James family. Follow the story from Richard James's childhood and engineering education at Penn State University where he married Betty Mattas to his naval engineering career at William Cramp & Sons and the accident with a tension spring that led to Slinky. The Jameses founding of the Spring and Wire Company and its success with Slinky, the company's foundering,...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire--without advertising or big-box distribution. Beanie Babies were ten percent of eBay's sales in its early days, with an average selling price of $30--six times the retail price. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
418 pages
Description
"The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--
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