TV Cream's Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents for

Loved this book - a real trip down memory lane - suggest reading on a saturday morning with a bag of penny chews.

I really enjoyed this book as it reminded me of things i had as a child and the things I wanted and never got. It's also a reminder of how simple a lot of the toys actually were. This would make a great gift for someone or just to add to your own book collection as i did. Would definitely recommend it.

Written in the humorous style of a C4 'Top 100' programme. Don't think they've done a Top 100 toys yet though - now there's an idea!!!
I enjoyed skim reading it and spotting my favourites (View Master, Haunted House and the Cadbury's Chocolate Machine among others) and then started from the beginning and read it properly.
Because it includes facts as well as experience led quips, it's still interesting to read about toys you didn't play with. I'm sure there could be a second book though because there were so many of my faves missing; Fisher Price play sets (especially the garage and hospital), The Bionic Woman, Mary Quant's 'Daisy' doll, Matchbox cars, Plastercraft(?) etc.

Great nostalgia value.

If you were a kid in the 70s, and to some extent the 80s, then this is pure distilled nostalgia in an easy-to-read book format with lots of pictures.

At first glance it looks quite a quick read (only 200 pages) but it will take you quite a while- there's a lot of detail in there, especially if you keep skipping back and forth through all the footnotes (which you should), and by the time you've finished laughing out loud, you've cross-referenced one toy against another and you've gazed wistfully at the toy photos, wishing you were 8 years old again, this book will have kept you interested for many hours.

As a child of the 80s I'd say about half the toys were just a little bit before my time, but that didn't make it less interesting- it's still a fun read.

My personal 'those were the days' moments: Armatron, Big Trak, Connect 4, Downfall, Etch-a-Sketch... and that's just A to E.

Steve Berry's meticulously compiled book is extraordinarily evocative and regularly had the hairs on my neck standing up as I turned the page to see a long-forgotten chunk of childhood propelled through time and dangled before my ageing, wistful eyes.

Genuinely quite moving for hardcore nostalgia-wallowers, but even for those of a certain age who live resolutely in the present, TV Cream Toys will elicit the odd whelp of recognition. Excellent.