The book consists a 10 stories which include all the happy and magical things you may remember from your own childhood, toys which come alive when you slept, but you never saw move. This book also has very special toys and facts / fiction - you decided or better still your child(ren) decided - it's their stories. Remember to let the children imagine the characters. The author asked his, now grown up daughters, to describe the characters and got 4 different descriptions for each character.