| Music box collectors and enthusiasts often have a | | | | music jewelry box that opens to reveal more than just |
| wide variety of music boxes in their collections. Some | | | | jewelry. Maybe the most popular toy music box for |
| collectors may prefer music boxes that play wonderful | | | | girls is the ballerina music box which opens to display |
| music, while others might opt for those that provide an | | | | the performance of a ballerina, or maybe an ice skater, |
| ornate home to jewelry and family heirlooms. But what | | | | who twirls gracefully across a stage of mirrored glass. |
| we often forget when discussing music boxes is that | | | | Boys, on the other hand, might be more familiar with a |
| nearly all of us have been touched by their song at | | | | toy music box that displays circling airplanes, trains, or |
| one time or another. There are many children's toys | | | | cars instead of a dancing or skating performer. Of |
| that have an almost universal appeal and presence; | | | | course, there are countless versions of the toy music |
| teddy bears, a baby doll, toy cars, and yes, a toy | | | | box that we all remember, regardless of our gender. |
| music box too. | | | | Toy clocks, radios, televisions, records players, and CD |
| Every day millions of babies are lulled to sleep by the | | | | players, all of them have taken the form of a music |
| soothing sounds of a music box. And every day many | | | | box and have provided hours of fun to countless |
| of those same babies wake up to play with a toy | | | | children. |
| music box. Whether it is a Jack-In-The-Box whose | | | | As adults many of us still have an interest in toy music |
| song is a precursor to him springing from his box, or a | | | | boxes. Whether it is a musical snow globe, a souvenir |
| stuffed toy that is wound up and plays a lullaby, music | | | | from a vacation, or even the music boxes that we |
| boxes become part of our lives at the earliest of ages. | | | | enjoyed in our youth, for many a toy music box is |
| Older children have strong ties to music boxes as well. | | | | something that stays with us for a lifetime. |
| Many girls enjoy a toy music box in the form of a | | | | |