Three toys are built into one wooden bus here, and they arrive at three different ages. At one, it is something to pull on a red string and watch roll. At two, the four animal blocks start going into the shaped holes in its side. At three, the eight-key xylophone on the roof stops being noise and starts being a scale played from one end to the other.

The xylophone bars run purple, blue, cyan, green, yellow-green, yellow, orange and red, each one shorter than the last and pinned at both ends so it rings rather than rattles. Two wooden beaters with round ball heads come with it, which matters more than it sounds — one beater means a child plays alone, two means a parent sits down and plays with them.

The blocks are a giraffe, a hippo, a zebra and an elephant, each cut and painted as its own animal rather than as a shape with a sticker on it. They post through animal-shaped holes in the side of the bus and rattle around inside until the bus is tipped up. A child who cannot yet name the animals still learns that the giraffe only fits the giraffe hole.

The bus itself is solid wood with painted panels, four blue wheels, and a face on the front with big eyes and a grille that reads as a smile. Music notes and a treble clef are printed along the red side panel. The red pull cord is knotted to the front, and because the body is wide and low it does not tip over when a toddler yanks it round a corner.

At Rs. 4,895 this is the largest toy in this group and it is meant to last several years and, usually, more than one child. There is nothing to charge, no speaker, and no plastic sound chip to fail — the noise it makes is a real bar being struck, which is also why it is quieter than a battery toy at three in the afternoon.

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