{"id":3839,"date":"2018-02-13T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2020-02-22T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:05:11","slug":"toymakers-robert-dinsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/toymakers-robert-dinsdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinsdale’s The Toymakers is about Magic, Toys and Love in an Emporium"},"content":{"rendered":"
One toy shop. Two brothers. A young girl. Their lives become tangled together in a place where an old man creates magic and toys come to life.<\/p>\n
Papa Jack\u2019s Emporium opens with the first frost of the year. For years Papa Jack has created and sold magical toys: patchwork dogs, instant paper trees, pop up books and tin soldiers that can fight their own battles. Soon his sons, Kaspar and Emil, need to take over the family trade. The brothers love each other; but they also know each other\u2019s strength and weakness. They know that only one man will head the Emporium in the end. Then there is Cathy Wray, a homeless, pregnant runaway child. She becomes part of the Emporium and before she knows it, an irreplaceable part in the lives of the family.<\/p>\n