Hello girls and boys! : a New Zealand toy story /

<Div>Toys are fun – but they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to twenty-first-century gamers. With its memories of knucklebones and double happys, golliwogs and tin canoes, marbles and Meccano, T...

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Main Author: Veart, David (Author)
Other Authors: Raftery, Emily (Photographer), Duncan, Katrina (Designer), Gardiner, Nigel (Cover designer), Keith, Gideon (Cover designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:<Div>Toys are fun – but they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to twenty-first-century gamers. With its memories of knucklebones and double happys, golliwogs and tin canoes, marbles and Meccano, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees, this is a seriously fun New Zealand toy story.</div>
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781775587620
1775587622
1322198705
9781322198705
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2014).