E-Blox Stories-The Cave is an impressive addition to the construction-based toy category, breaking new ground by integrating education and reading into the play pattern and reclassifying it as a STREAM product. That’s right parents, one more term to learn. Science, Technology, Reading/Writing, Engineering, the Arts, and Math. This is designed to stimulate a childs imagination and creativity through hands-on tactile play, interactive storytelling, creative reasoning, and the systematic building of objects. You gotta give it to the E-Blox team, they aim high. The assembly manual is very supportive with a step-by-step process for each unique figure. The light up circuits thrilled kids and offered another level of “cool” to this product. Right from the start our testers were drawn in and remained engaged in the variety of ways they could interact with E-Blox. The 3-D circuit creations are easy to build and allow plenty of space for imagination, patience, creativity and concentration. Included is the novelette “Earth One.” an intriguing story that guides your child through building the various projects. It also contains QR Codes that help search for definitions or pictures of words within the story for greater comprehension. Testers were impressed with how the whole activity is a great collaborative effort from start to finish.