When deciding on the best gifts for 11-year-olds, we spoke with parents, our expert and a slew of real 11-year-olds. Our picks include toys from Lego, Koosh and Nintendo.

Promising review: "I bought the first set 11 years ago for my grandchildren. They are still as good now as in the beginning. Some of the kids still play with them.

Dolls have proven to be a popular toy choice throughout decades, starting with baby dolls in the 1910s to the rise of Barbie in the 1960s and Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1980s. Plush toys have also ...

Western European finds from as early as 14,000 to 21,000 years ago also may have gone unrecognized as children’s toys, Langley suggests in a paper published this month in the Oxford Journal of ...

For years, Toys for Tots officials heard inspiring stories of kids volunteering for the program, Silvester said. They decided to name some of those kids youth ambassadors. In 2020, Taylor and ...

The 11 honorees include the Electronic Toy of the Year, Technosource’s touch-sensitive Rubik’s TouchCube, which lights up when you play with it and includes a built-in solver so that kids can ...