--- title: Toy Stories: Kids Around the World Pose With Favorite Toys description: From Fiji to Zambia, children showed Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberte their favorite toys canonical: https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T09:45:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:59.989Z og:title: See Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Favorite Toys og:description: From Fiji to Zambia, children showed Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberte their favorite toys og:url: https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20823f175cc1a8e8/69868680e53aba36124d199e/toy-stories-gabriele-galimberti-ralf-latvia.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1000 og:image:height: 563 og:image:alt: Ralf, 4, Riga, Latvia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Favorite Toys twitter:description: From Fiji to Zambia, children showed Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberte their favorite toys twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20823f175cc1a8e8/69868680e53aba36124d199e/toy-stories-gabriele-galimberti-ralf-latvia.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Kids Want to Show You Their Favorite Toys > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 25, 2014 9:45 AM UTC  Ralf, 4 Riga, Latvia Ralf, 4 Riga, LatviaGabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 25, 2014 9:45 AM UTC Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti photographed children all over the world posing with their favorite toys, from Alaska to India to Africa to South America. “For every photograph, I would spend the entire day with the family,” he says in the introduction to his book, [_Toy Stories: Photos of Children from Around the World and Their Favorite Things_](http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Toy%5FStories-9781419711749.html) published by Abrams Image. “In some places, like China and the Middle East, the parents would push their children hard to pose for the photos, even if the kids didn’t seem comfortable. It could be a bit embarassing. I didn’t want to take pictures of crying children.” Galimberti found that the fewer toys a child had, the less possessive he or she was about them, and that free-roaming children tended to be more likely to share their toys than city children who often play alone. “My eighty-five year-old grandmother doesn’t know where some of the countries I visited are — places like Zambia, Malawi, or Fiji — but she remembers her favorite toys. Everybody does.”  Ralf, 4 Riga, Latvia Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Allenah, 4 El Nido, Philippines Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Maudy, 3 Kalulushi, Zambia Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Watcharapon, 3 Bangkok, Thailand Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Reania, 5 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Pavel, 5 Kiev, Ukraine Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Bethsaida, 6 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Julia, 3 Tirana, Albania Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Abel, 4 Nopaltepec, Mexico Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Shotaro, 5 Tokyo, Japan Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Noel, 5 South Dallas, Texas Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE  Roxane, 5 Paris, France Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/"},"headline":"These Kids Want to Show You Their Favorite Toys","datePublished":"2014-03-25T09:45:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:59.989Z","description":"From Fiji to Zambia, children showed Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberte their favorite toys","url":"https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/","keywords":["Living","Children","Childhood","Global","Toys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20823f175cc1a8e8/69868680e53aba36124d199e/toy-stories-gabriele-galimberti-ralf-latvia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20823f175cc1a8e8/69868680e53aba36124d199e/toy-stories-gabriele-galimberti-ralf-latvia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ralf, 4, Riga, Latvia","caption":"Ralf, 4, Riga, Latvia","creditText":"Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/32733/children-favorite-toys-around-world/","name":"These Kids Want to Show You Their Favorite Toys"}}]}] ```