Reading – Dinky Toys

I have successfully managed to completely avoid one type of toy that tempts me: small, metal cars either old or new. Relatively low prices, a huge variety, and some crazy designs has me always looking at toy cars whenever I’m out in stores.

Well, while I may be doing a good job of not collecting toy cars that doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy a book packed with photos of antique toy cars. Dinky Toys: Much loved Dinky Toys of the 1950s, a 144-page hardcover book packed with photos of toy cars, focuses solely on the Dinky Toy company (Wikipedia entry) and has very, very few words. (So I guess — like the Super Robot #1 book I mentioned last month — this is more “looking at pretty photos” than it is reading.)

Click to see Dinky Toys at Amazon.com.
Click to see Dinky Toys at Amazon.com.

What makes this book fun? The photographer, Kim Sayer, put a lot of imagination into staging the photos. There’s an image gallery at Amazon that shows off a few of the photos so I recommend checking that out. For the lazy ones out there here’s one of the cooler photos in the gallery:

Click to visit the image gallery at Amazon.com.
Click to visit the image gallery at Amazon.com.

This is a fun book if you like toy cars and photos of toys.

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