Dr. Toy

Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D., known as Dr. Toy, has been tracking trends in the toy business for more than 30 years. Dr. Toy has searched across the entire toy industry for the great classic toys that fit the criteria for fun and high play value. Dr. Toy says, “Classic toys are enduring and have many important benefits. They encourage the child’s interaction, involvement and are truly child-powered.” The classic toys she has selected as winners have been available for ten, fifty, or a hundred years or more.

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

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.

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Parenting Magazine

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

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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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Toys 'R Us

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

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