Sign up to get Today’s Best Articles in your inbox
Join 350,000+ subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of
The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Christmas 2018: seven best gifts for children
The presents little ones will be writing to Father Christmas about this year
Join more than 350,000 subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
Join more than 350,000 subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
This adorable pooch is tipped to be one of the top toys of the year. The furReal pet can be taught tricks and responds with more than 100 sound and motion combinations. Suitable for ages 4+.
Keep your smallest entertained with this beautiful Noah’s Ark themed gym from The White Company. It is also a “great story-telling accessory”, says The Independent, and babies can explore a giraffe rattle, elephant teething toy and more.
Sign up to get Today’s Best Articles in your inbox
A free daily email with the day’s biggest news and analysis – and the best features from TheWeek.com
For kids with curious minds, the GraviTrax Starter Set is the perfect gift to help them learn about gravity, magnetism and kinetic energy in a fun, imaginative way. Create set designs or go freestyle with more than 100 pieces of track, then set your gravity sphere on its way and watch it roll. For 8+.
Argos has declared 2018 the “year of the unicorn”, with the magical creatures dominating toy shelves. To mark the trend, Feber has given the traditional rocking horse a suitable upgrade. My Lovely Unicorn can move forwards, backwards, left and right, with a simple twist of her reins. Suitable for 3+ years.
The main reason to see this glitzy Aladdin is “summed up in three words”, says the London Evening Standard: “Trevor Dion Nicholas” (pictured above). The actor and the entire production are “sheer genie-ous”. Recommended for ages 6+; children under 3 not admitted.
What is Christmas without a train set and Lego? This year you can have the two in one. Lego has launched a Harry Potter special: the Hogwarts Express train, featuring a railway bridge at King’s Cross Station and steps leading to Platform 93⁄4. Includes mini figures of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin and the Trolley Witch. Recommended for ages 8-14.
A brand new magazine from the team at The Week Junior, Science+Nature is an eye-opening exploration of everything from the deepest recesses of the oceans to the outer reaches of the universe, edited by the award-winning writer Dan Green, author of the bestselling Basher Science books.
