Cuddly Plush Educational Toys
Scrolling through the Natural History Museum's online gift shop looking for Christmas presents for kids.
Adorable soft toys.
Representing Species still extant and species long gone....
How about a cuddly plush spinosaurus?
When I was a kid and going through the Natural History Museums shop looking for a dinosaur-related gift for myself the best thing I could come up with was a paperback book entitled "Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles". It had a few black and white illustrations and sat on my bookself- unread- for decades. It was a scholarly treatise. Dry, dry dry. Dry as old bones- plus footnotes. Museums in the 1950s were for serious people not kids.
If I remember correctly the big thing in the main exhibition hall was a mock up of a Blue Whale. Later it was replaced by the skeleton of a huge herbivore. Now, assuming I'm up to date, the whale is back- only in skeleton form.
Oh look, a cuddly plush Dodo. My heart gives a little leap. My love for dodos is infused with regret.
And guilt
We can't be blamed for the dinosaurs going extinct but the dodo is a different matter....
Adorable soft toys.
Representing Species still extant and species long gone....
How about a cuddly plush spinosaurus?
When I was a kid and going through the Natural History Museums shop looking for a dinosaur-related gift for myself the best thing I could come up with was a paperback book entitled "Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles". It had a few black and white illustrations and sat on my bookself- unread- for decades. It was a scholarly treatise. Dry, dry dry. Dry as old bones- plus footnotes. Museums in the 1950s were for serious people not kids.
If I remember correctly the big thing in the main exhibition hall was a mock up of a Blue Whale. Later it was replaced by the skeleton of a huge herbivore. Now, assuming I'm up to date, the whale is back- only in skeleton form.
Oh look, a cuddly plush Dodo. My heart gives a little leap. My love for dodos is infused with regret.
And guilt
We can't be blamed for the dinosaurs going extinct but the dodo is a different matter....