Chinese Toys

Perhaps readers of my flagship blog (http://spacebeaglenotes.blogspot.com) remember reading earlier this summer that the former Director of the Chinese "Food and Drug Administration" was executed by Chinese authorities for his incompetence and corruption in the wake of the contaminated pet food incident earlier this year.

Well China has another death to report -- the president of the toy manufacturing company which produced the lead-lined toys imported by Mattel Corporation and other entities committed suicide recently.

So now American parents are scrambling to assess whether or not their children's toys are on the product recall list. Granted, my love of books makes me biased but I would encourage parents/grandparents to simply buy the children in their lives BOOKS not toys.

The worst that a book can do to a child is give them a paper cut :-)

Open a book and feed the mind,

Todd