New worlds of play

The Globestone™ entertains while stimulating your children’s geographic curiosity, allowing for greater creative play than jigsaw or wipe-clean globe toys. Traditionally, rotatably mounted, the Globestone™ is a featureless blue magnetised sphere, & comes in a box containing all the countries of the world (larger states on a piece each, smaller ones grouped into handy-sized coagula such as mitteleuropa). Each is cut from thin metal with accurate political-border edges & a small rubberized central nub for easy manipulation. These pieces are contoured to snap exactly & satisfyingly onto the Globestone™’s surface. They can be put on, taken off & moved endlessly, allowing your child to enjoy piecing together the surface of the world. (A map is included!)

Expansion packs are also available:

  • Nostalgic for when the map was Imperial Pink? Pine no more with our Raj kit, colour-coded to help the budding historian. 
  • The 17th Century pack, including three representations of tall ships. 

Also available are landmass sets lovingly recreated from:


    & that’s not all. Want to play in Neverland? Lilliput? Atlantis? Fiddler’s Green? St Brendan’s Isle? R’lyeh? Islandia? Mu? All these pieces & more are available, each seperately, or bundled together in our Lands of the Imagination collection! 

    (A warning: some children insist on creating, recreating & mutating geographies according to their own utter & geo-utopian aspirations. They may mix pieces from various historical, modern &/or imaginary sets, creating land-routes between a 17th Century rendition of a west African coast & its modern counterpart, say, or placing Ophir as a buffer between a polar-located Germany & some vast southern sea serpent, or covering the waters of their planet with endless repeating Scandinavias. Globestone™ cannot be held responsible for any such activities.)



    rejectamentalist manifesto


    China Miéville’s waste books

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    ‘A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicize such things.’


                    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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    London’s Overthrow.

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