Last month, my four-year-old visited with Santa Claus on Zoom, where she told him what she wanted for Christmas. “There’s this toy dog,” Ella said. “He comes with a leash, so you can pretend to take ...

This year’s forecast for the toy industry is in the toilet — literally. A new game called “Pull My Finger” — in which players compete to pull a purple monkey’s finger without releasing a noisy fart ...