This year, one of the fun objects I came across is a set of wooden blocks, laser-etched from American maple wood. They are in the style of a child's alphabet blocks, with each letter illustrated with ...

There also were simpler toys: tops, balls and brilliantly lithographed puzzle blocks in sturdy wooden boxes ... children at the turn of the century. Alphabet blocks had been used to teach young ...

It might be a case of going back to the drawing board for the makers of this toy. Because, as this footage shows, when these colourful alphabet building blocks are stacked in the order ...