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The best toddler toys of 2008 have combined both learning and play in a fun attractive package just right for your little one.

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AllAboardToys.com

AllAboardToys.com has selected the Best Toys for 2007 based on a number of different criteria, including safety, quality, durability, and ability to foster creative, imaginative and constructive play.



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American Baby Magazine

Each year for the AMBY awards, they ask readers to nominate the products that simplify their job as parents. More than 10,000 people weighed in with their three "can't live without" items for a total of more than 30,000 votes in all. They sorted through letters, faxes, AND e-mails to arrive at this ultimate list of the 15 best baby products, FROM the top vote-getters on down.

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Baby Zone

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Buzzillions Reviewers' Choice Award WINNER

Buzzillions.com is a one-stop product research site for consumers, providing reviews and recommendations from real product users for hundreds of thousands of products. These reviews and recommendations help guide consumers to make informed product decisions that meet their specific needs and uses, with product reviews from people like them, who are verified to have purchased the product. Buzzillions verifies the purchase by partnering with hundreds of retailers who actually send out the surveys to known customers. Buzzillions is owned by its parent company, PowerReviews, Inc.

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Child Magazine

editors selected toys for their annual toy fest. They handed the toys out to children, parents, caregivers, and teachers to play with for several weeks at a time. Only the cream of the crop made it into the holiday list!

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Creative Child Magazine

Creative Child Magazine's Toy Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by moms, music educators and early education professionals. Products are not reviewed by any one person. They are reviewed by many people-the very people who purchase them.

CreativeChild.com © 2007

Dr. Toy

Dr. Toy's Guide, the world's first website to provide timely and professional guidance on the best in toys and educational products, offers year-round, award-winning toy and children's product information plus valuable articles, useful resources, links and much more. Take your time, bookmark this site, and return often. Over the years thousand of toys and children's products have been selected for the special recognition provided by awards of excellence by Dr. Toy. These items are displayed throughout the site with product descriptions, images, and company contact information.

Copyright 1995 - 2009 Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D., San Francisco,CA.

eToys

©2008 eToys Direct, Inc. All rights reserved. "eToys" is a registered trademark of eToys Direct, Inc. Online retailer eToys (http://www.etoys.com) picked the top educational toys for the 2008 holiday season. These toys encourage interactive play with learning adventures. The one-stop shop for children's toys and video games online, eToys features one of the largest selections of engaging educational toys, hard-to-find specialty toys as well as the holiday season's most popular toys.

FamilyFun Magazine

gathered more than a thousand kids to put the 2006 hottest new playthings through their paces. And after 30,000 hours of testing, the kids have picked their favorites: 42 winners and 21 grand prize winners, including the Top 10 absolute must-have toys of all.

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Great American Toy Test

asked children across the country for the 27th-straight year to test thousands of toys to find out which ones were the most fun. About 9,000 children tried out 4,200 toys submitted by 90 toymakers that features a six-part TV news series and half-hour program that airs in over 50 television markets nationwide.

The toys are graded by teachers and children on important consumer considerations: quality, durability, ease of assembly, maintenance, short- term interest, long- term interest, educational value, safety and just plain old fun.

iParenting Media

iParenting.com, an online community for parents and parents-to-be, is part of Disney Online’s network of family-focused Web sites including Disney Family.com, FamilyFun.com and Wondertime.com.

iParenting Media's Award Program provides a credible and objective method of determining the winners. Hundreds of products were submitted for judging in 20 categories, and underwent a thorough evaluation process that uses internationally recognized standard of quality assurance.

Award-winning products were selected based on their fun value, product quality, ease of use, play duration, educational nature and uniqueness, among other criteria.

© 1996-2008 iParenting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Kmart

NAPPA Awards

The NAPPA recognition is far more than simply a “good-enough” seal of approval. It signifies that the winning product has been rigorously evaluated against stringent criteria and that it stands out among hundreds of other products from all around the world. Only the best products win the prestigious NAPPA recognition.
NAPPA’s team of independent expert judges and family testers (parents and kids) select the most entertaining, appealing, safe, educational, age-appropriate and enduring products as NAPPA Gold and Honors winners.
The most comprehensive awards program of its kind, NAPPA holds two distinct competitions each year:

NAPPA Children’s Products competition

NAPPA Parenting Resources competition

As NAPPA enters its 19th year serving families, the NAPPA seal has come to symbolize the innovation, usefulness and high quality that parents trust.
NAPPA helps parents make the best choices for their families.

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Nick Jr. Magazine

Toy experts conducted a Toy Test to select the most creative new preschool toys of the year. Each toy scores one point for: Creativity, Open-Ended Play Patterns, Originality, Developmental Design, Quality, Value, and Fun. A panel of preschoolers, a Ph.D., Nick Jr. editors, parents, and educators review the toys. Each toy selected needs to have that "wow" factor.

©2006 Viacom International Inc. All rights reserved.

Oppenheim Toy Portfolio

The Oppenheim’s review the submissions, weeding out products that are unsafe, unsound or obviously unworthy. Promising products are then kid tested by families nationwide. Finally, the experts consider these results as part of the overall evaluation of the product. Unlike publications that rely exclusively on the judgment of kid-testers, these reviews take kid-tester's response to a product as one of the many factors to be considered, along with educational and play value, safety, age appropriateness, and other factors.

Copyright 1995-2008. Oppenheim Toy Portfolio - All Rights Reserved. Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, and Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Blue Chip Award are Registered Trademarks of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.

Parenting Magazine

The best toys of 2008 are approved by mom and kid-testers around the country.

Copyright © 2008 The Parenting Group

Parents' Choice Awards

The Foundation’s purpose is to search out and recommend products that help kids grow—imaginatively, physically, morally and mentally—fairly priced products that are fun, safe and socially sound.

Established in 1978, Parents’ Choice is the nation's oldest nonprofit guide to quality children's media and toys.

© Copyright 2008 Parents' Choice Foundation. All rights reserved.

Parents Magazine

judges hundreds of toys for every age on originality, quality, play value, and fun. Then they have the real experts, the kids, pick the finalist for their annual list of the Best Toys of the Year!

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Shopzilla

© 2006 Shopzilla, Inc. Shopzilla is a Scripps media company.

The Toy Insider/Redbook

Our toy insider staff of experts has selected these as some of the Hottest Toys for this Holiday Season. Your child may have individual needs or passions, so review each age segment and visit our website for even more great Holiday choises.

Adventure Publishing Group, Inc. Teams With REDBOOK Magazine for The Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.

Adventure Publishing Group, Inc., publisher of leading toy industry trade magazine The Toy Book, has teamed with REDBOOK magazine for the publication of The Toy Insider, the source for the hottest toys and gifts for the holidays.

The Toy Insider is slated to run in the November issue of REDBOOK, which hits newsstands on October 15. An advertiser-supported special supplement, The Toy Insider offers expert-selected toy and gift recommendations by age categories, including 0-2 years old, 3-5 years old, 6-8 years old and 9 and older.

Time To Play

A team of toy industry experts put together a list of the “Most Wanted Toys” for the Holiday season. These are the toys that will most likely top most kid's wish lists this holiday season.

© 2008 aNb Media

Today Show

Toy Test 2005 NBC's TODAY Show

Today's Parent

Top Toys 2007
What do kids want this holiday season? Find answers in our annual guide to the best new toys and games for all ages.

NOTE: All painted infant, toddler and preschool toys featured on Todaysparent.com and in the pages of Today's Parent have been tested for lead and confirmed lead-free.

By Marcia MacQuarrie, Contributing Editor, Toys

Toy Industry Association

Toy Industry Association (TIA™) introduced the annual T.O.T.Y. (Toy Of The Year) Awards to create the most inclusive toy event of the year, with representatives from the entire industry participating to salute the success, creativity and playful spirit of the toy industry.

The Awards were conceived to honor the best toys developed by the international toy industry for consumers in the United States; the program significantly expands the vision of the long-standing Toy Industry Hall of Fame program to recognize toys, as well as individuals.

©2003-2006 Toy Industry Association, Inc.

Toy Tips

"TTT" ratings (Toy Tips Trusted®) Mark of Excellence means that a product has been triple tested using Toy Tips' academic review process. Tested by three different review groups: educators, parents and children, this product exceeds our standards and has been rated to deliver a fun play experience that also stimulates developmental learning skills. All testing is conducted through The Toy Research Institute and focuses on the intellectual, social, physical, and individual character and personality development of the child.

©1997-2006 Toy Tips, Inc. All rights reserved.

Toy Whimzy (Amazon.com Blog)

Toy Wishes Buying Guide

Toy Wishes Magazine, the Ultimate Guide to Family Entertainment, features more than 500 toy reviews culled by the Toy Wishes editorial staff, after reviewing tens of thousands of new toys and based on their more than 75 years of combined, hands-on experience with toys, kids, and child development.

Toy Wishes TM & © 2006 Wizard Entertainment

Toys 'R' Us

Toys "R" Us announced the toys it predicts will be on the top of children's wish lists this holiday season.

© 2006 Geoffrey, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ultimate Toy of the Year

The Ultimate TOY Awards Presented by Toy Wishes & DIC Entertainment “Ultimate TOY of the Year” Awards

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has done the detective work so you can feel relaxed and confident in your gift-giving knowing that you have insight into what the nation's top retailer believes will be the season's "top" toys!

© 2006 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Working Mother

© Copyright 2007, Working Mother Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.