TABLE OF CONTENTS

 






STANDARDS
OBJECTIVES &
HANDOUTS


TOY AD
ANALYSIS
WORKSHEET
HANDOUT

PROCEDURES


BACKGROUND
READINGS


RECOMMENDED
BOOKS


RECOMMENDED
VIDEOS


LESSON PLAN
FOR SC EDUCATORS


























 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Buy Me That: The Powerful Influence of 
TV Toy Commercials,
How TV Toy Commercials Influence Our Kids"

Written by Frank Baker  ©2004


Recommended texts:  more Advertising Books


Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor
Scribner,
ISBN: 068487055X

Read Salon Interview/review
Wash post article


BRANDchild: Insights into the 
Minds of Today's Global Kids: 
Understanding Their Relationship 
with Brands

by Martin Lindstrom, 
Patricia B. Seybold
Kogan Page Ltd;  
ISBN:
0749438673
Website


Children As Consumers Insights and Implications  James U. McNeal

 
Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood  Susan E. Linn


Creating Ever-Cool  A Marketer's Guide to A Kid's Heart   Gene Del Vecchio

Kidfluence: Why Kids Today Mean Business
Kidfluence: Why Today's Kids Mean Business Ann Sutherland, Beth Thompson  book & author's website

The Kids Market: Myths and Realities
The Kids Market: Myths & Realities  
James. U McNeal  


Kids Media Culture
Marsha Kinder (editor)


Kinder-Culture, The Corporate Construction of Childhood,
 Shirley Steinberg, 
Joe Kincheloe


Kids As Consumers, A Handbook of Marketing To Children, 
James U. McNeal

Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture (Communications, Media, and Culture)
Sold Separately  Parents & Children in Consumer Culture, Ellen Seiter    REVIEW

Toy Tips : A Parent's Essential Guide to Smart Toy Choices
Top Tips: A Parent's Essential Guide to Smart Toy Choices Jossey-Bass; 
ISBN: 0787974366

Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them
Toy Wars


What Kids Buy and Why, Dan. S. Acuff with Robert H. Reiher


Children: Consumption, Advertising and Media 
Flemming Hansen (Editor), Jeanette Rasmussen (Editor), Anne Martensen (Editor), Birgitte Tufte Copenhagen Business School Press 
(October 29, 2002)

  • ISBN: 8763001004
    Read Chapters 1 & 2


  • Saturday Morning Fever : Growing up with 
    Cartoon Culture
    Timothy Burke, Kevin Burke
    St. Martin's Griffin
    ISBN:  0312169965
    excerpt


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