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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: David Brewster, Frank Caplan, Frank Hornby, Louis Marx, Charles Martin Crandall, Jesse Armour Crandall, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Hans Beck, Joshua Lionel Cowen, Charles Plimpton, Bernard Loomis, Ern Rubik, Torquil Norman, Ty Warner, Soren Sorensen Adams, Michael Joaquin Grey, Richard Steiff, Harold von Braunhut, Scott Kim, Muriel Fahrion, Ronald Howes, Ken Forsse, Uwe Meffert, Richard T. James, Gary Dahl, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Marjorie Abbatt, Margaret Evans Price, Xavier Roberts, Jack Odell, Tim Kehoe, Antonio Pasin, no K jin, Fred Cox, George Lerner, Parisi Industries, Inc., Margarete Steiff, Arthur Granjean, Morris Michtom, Reyn Guyer, John Lloyd Wright. Excerpt: Frank Caplan (June 10, 1911 - September 28, 1988) was a youth worker, educator, folk toy collector, and pioneer in developing and manufacturing educational toys for children. He co-founded Creative Playthings in 1945 with his wife, Theresa Caplan, and worked with artists, architects, and designers, such as Isamu Noguchi, Louis Kahn, Henry Moore, Robert Winston, and the Swiss toymaker, Antonio Vitali, to create innovative educational play objects and playground designs for children. By the 1950s, Creative Playthings had gained international recognition and expanded to become one of the most important manufacturers and suppliers of materials for early childhood education. In 1975, Frank Caplan founded The Princeton Center for Infancy and Early Childhood. He researched and co-authored a national bestselling series on early childhood development with Theresa Caplan, which included, The First Twelve Months of Life (1977), The Second Twelve Months of Life (1978), and The Early Childhood Years: The 2 to 6 Year Old (1983). Together they also co-authored The Power of Play (1973). He was one of the first male nursery school teachers in the U.S. and together with...
