In This Issue:

- Play It Safe: How To Choose The Right Toys

- See It! Own It! Resist It!

- Probing for Product Protection

- Cross These Off Your List

- Additional Resources

- Excerpt from See It! Own It! Resist It!

Like other consumer products, toys are subject to fashion, and the most powerful driver of toy trends is popular culture. Movies, celebrities, sports ... they all influence what kids like and what they want to play with.

World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH), a nonprofit, explains that toy manufacturers see big profits in the fan frenzy over movies and TV programs that appeal to children. For example, the popular "Hunger Games" franchise boosts the appetite for bows and arrows, but they're appropriate and safe for far fewer children than want to play with them....