JOE MAGICIAN HANDPUPPET

Put it on your hand and Joe comes to life.

Puppets do something no other toy manages. Children will talk to a puppet, confide in it and answer its questions when they will not do the same for an adult asking directly. It is why nurseries and speech therapists keep a box of them, and why they are worth having at home.

Joe the dragon loves performing magic tricks to amuse his friends, working spells out of his grandfather Walter's old books.

There is no script and nothing to set up. Tell a story, sing a rhyme, play peekaboo, have a conversation on the way to bed. It is roomy enough for an adult hand and light enough for a two-year-old to work themselves, at which point it stops being your toy and starts being theirs.

Entirely soft fabric with embroidered features. Machine washable at 30 degrees on a gentle cycle. Lilliputiens is a Belgian brand, founded in 1995 and designed by a team largely made up of parents working alongside early-childhood specialists. Tested to EN71 and ASTM standards and screened for AZO dyes, cadmium and phthalates.

A CHARACTER YOU CAN OPERATE - Slip it on and Joe moves, talks, hides and listens. Children will say things to a puppet they will not say to an adult, which is why nurseries and speech therapists use them.

STORYTELLING WITHOUT A SCRIPT - Tell a story, sing a nursery rhyme, play peekaboo, have a conversation. A puppet gives you something to do together with no preparation at all.

Joe the dragon loves performing magic tricks to amuse his friends, working spells out of his grandfather Walter's old books.

SIZED FOR AN ADULT OR A CHILD - Roomy enough for a parent's hand and light enough for a two-year-old to work themselves, which is when it becomes their toy rather than yours.

SOFT AND WASHABLE - Entirely fabric with embroidered features and no hard parts. Machine washable at 30 degrees on a gentle cycle. Tested to EN71 and ASTM standards and screened for AZO dyes, cadmium and phthalates.

2 years and above

100% polyester fabric with embroidered features