Readers learn about the process of manufacturing toys and the materials that are used. Environmental issues and working conditions are revealed, shedding new light on where today’s children’s favorite toys come from. Readers will also learn about new efforts companies are making to provide their workers with fair wages and safe working conditions.
Fritz Brubaker and his wife, Linda, have it all, the perfect jobs, the perfect children, and the perfect house, but their comfortable world is turned upside down when Fritz is arrested for insider trading.
When Alic Butler begins receiving odd messages in a simple code from someone at PopCo, a profit-hungry toy company that has sent Alice and its other top creative minds out to a secluded Thought Camp, she begins to wonder if they are from her missing father or from someone who knows she hold the key to finding a valuable treasure.
Provides information about the toy industry, looks at some of the career opportunities available in the field, and features comments from men and women working as video game testers, toy designers, toy market researchers, and in other areas of the industry.
