Meal time is learning time for baby — and fun, too! Our ultra-practical eat & discover™ collection has the baby-smart features you rely on plus lots to stimulate learning. Baby will discover colorful letters, numbers and nature.

Alphabet worksheets include activities to present and reinforce letter recognition and writing skills. Print coloring pages, printable flash cards, and activity worksheets over and over again. The coloring pages, posters, and flashcards are suitable for children ages 1-6 years. The writing skills worksheets are designed for older toddlers, preschool, kindergarten and first grade. Many of the printable materials feature guidelines, lesson plans, crafts and related resources. Compatible with Windows and Mac.

Includes all twenty-six Witty Bit World stories and music including ideas and guidelines to make using this program easy, fun and highly effective. Also included is an access code to unlimited printable Witty Bit World® Alphabet Worksheets.

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Toddlers can now invite another friend to join the band and play LeapFrog’s new Learn & Groove Animal Sounds Guitar. The colorful guitar, complete with whammy bar and fret button, introduces numbers and animals in English or Spanish, while encouraging little ones’ exploration of music and guitar sound effects. The guitar’s three fun learning modes—numbers, animals and music—will keep kids jamming and learning. Launch date: July 2007.

The Brightlings Exploration Station offers new worlds for babies to discover each time they play. When babies drop a play pal into the Tumble Tunnel, they’ll hear musical chimes; in toddler mode, children will hear counting, from one to ten. At the Greetings Gate, baby mode is all about opposites, while toddlers can hear the word “hello” in five languages! Babies will love the three included Bitty Brights play pals, who dance with the colored ribbons on Rainbow Balcony and bounce with the Bobblers. Launch date: July 2007.

Little ones can sit and rock on this soft, yet sturdy, coffee-colored horse. Studded with a shiny red rosette ribbon, this rocking horse even makes little horse sounds. The horse features a classic design and a hardwood base.  Launch date: July 1, 2007.

This CD features all the classic verses of the beloved children’s song and many original songs composed by Laura Hall. The songs are sung by The Who’s, Roger Daltrey, and the riders on the bus. The CD is a compilation of music from all three DVDs in the series.

This mobile is perfect for a child's room, for a bathroom or for the summer cottage or even for a study. Hang the mobile out of reach of children. It measures 35x40 cm, 14”x16”.

In the third volume of the award-winning “Wheels on the Bus” series, Woof messes around and misses his ride to The Big Dog Parade. Mango and his friends learn about taking turns and getting along as they journey through an Enchanted Forest on their way to the Dog Parade. This product is an iParenting Media Best Product of the Year award winner. "'The Wheels on the Bus' combines entertaining musical adventures with lessons on key socialization skills like helping and sharing. The lessons are woven through the program in an easy and friendly way so that children can readily grasp them and then make them a part of their daily play," Andrea Blain of Andrea Blain Public Relations told TDmonthly. Launch date: January 22, 2008.

With each thump of the soft hammer, baby hears a variety of sounds or gets a pop-up surprise. This electronic activity toy for ages 9 months and up comes with a battery. Launch date: January 2007.

For kids (and parents) who are ready to give up the pacifier, this comforting book offers gentle encouragement to ease the transition. With simple words and colorful illustrations, this book highlights minimizing frustration and suggests alternatives to using the pacifier. Includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.

This 30-min. DVD, entirely in Spanish, introduces toddlers to a second language by teaching the numbers 1 through 20 and fostering language development through five short stories, nursery rhymes, catchy songs and charming sound effects. It presents beautiful images of children, toys and animals, and featured vocabulary includes days of the week, fruits, weather and more. The DVD “combines beautiful traditional Hispanic nursery rhymes and poetry by great Hispanic writers, as opposed to English nursery rhymes translated into Spanish,” Co-owner Teresa Rivera of A la Víbora de la Mar told TDmonthly. It received a spring 2007 Parents' Choice Approved Award. Launch date: September 19, 2006.

A la Víbora de la Mar brings forth a captivating collection of DVDs originally designed to provide quality learning opportunities to delight Spanish-speaking babies — and now available as a means to introduce babies to a second language. This 30-min. DVD, in Spanish, helps toddlers learn colors as it fosters language development through art, Hispanic nursery rhymes and poetry, and classical music by Beethoven and Mozart. It features beautiful images of children, toys, animals and Mexican art. The album features only native speakers and is “truly Latin American,” Co-owner Teresa Rivera of A la Víbora de la Mar told TDmonthly. It received a spring 2007 Parents' Choice Approved Award. Launch date: September 2006.

“Gimme Gimme” features original songs, traditional tunes and a handful of cover tracks with notable renditions of the Sister Rosetta Sharpe spiritual “Up Above My Head” and the old Delaney and Bonnie tune “Never Ending Song of Love,” a rocking, slide-guitar-driven interpretation of the traditional “This Train,” and a ukulele reggae version of “I Gave My Love a Cherry.” Among Richard Younger's original tunes is the lovely “Secret Day.” A South American-influenced rendition of M.E. McGee's classic “My Paddle,” coupled with “Row Your Boat,” also demonstrates his fine ear for arrangements. The album received a spring 2007 Parents’ Choice Award and was “designed with love for kids,” Younger told TDmonthly. Launch date: December 2006.

This plushy pull-along car with building blocks in the trunk is designed to inspire young minds, boost motor skills and teach numbers and counting. It features soft sides and wooden wheels, and measures 18” x 8” x 7”. Babystyle products are available online and/or through the company’s retail stores.

Introduced in 1962, the Chatter Telephone was designed with a rotary dial to teach children how to dial a phone. Today’s Chatter Telephone makes children smile just the same with eyes that roll up and down, and a dial that rings. This friendly phone was re-introduced for a whole new generation of children to enjoy.
— Reproductions from Fisher-Price have been named as hot sellers since 2005 by the specialty retailers that talk to TDmonthly.

— Mike DiAndrea, manager of Hardware Center Inc., reported to TDmonthly sales of about 40 Chatter Telephones per week in November 2009.

With an imaginative blend of music and creative movement, the playful images inspired by these adorable, easy sing-along songs will have everyone giggling and wiggling, twirling and clapping. This musical frolic also advances language, math, science, listening and movement skills. Song titles include “Wigglin Around,” “Gotta Get the Beat,” “Five Fluffy Puppies,” “Little Red Train,” “Country Lullaby” and more. This product received a spring 2007 Parents' Choice Approved Award. “[The] CD includes bonus features: two additional songs, an activity guide and a video through the computer,” President Jill Person of A Gentle Wind told TDmonthly. Launch date: January 2007.

This second disc of folk music for families from Dave Fox and Will Branch is a musical version of the popular “Where's Waldo?” books. Children try to find 15 different musical instrument sounds scattered throughout the CD. Each sound is named and demonstrated early on and then used in remaining songs. The CD insert includes an illustration of the instruments being played and a listing of those played on each song. “Fox and Branch specialize in children's music that is deeply rooted in traditional American folk music, not pop or rock music. Their CDs have a depth and authenticity that other recordings of children's music lack,” a representative of Fox and Branch told TDmonthly. This product received a spring 2007 Parents' Choice Recommended seal. Launch date: February 2007.

“When I was a baby I snuggled in my blanket. Now I am a big boy. I have a new baby sister…I gave her my blanket.” Babies are very good at being babies, and when they grow up, they’re good at being big kids, too. But no matter how big they get, there is one special something they’ll always enjoy. This book is by Deborah Niland. Launch date: September 1, 2007.

Sophie’s a big girl now, with a nice, new big girl bed. But Bunny, Bear and Scarlett are worried. The bed is very, very big, and what if they get lost under all those sheets and blankets? This 24-page book is written by Tina Burke. Launch date: September 1, 2007.

Red Dog, Blue Cat and Yellow Bird are having lots of fun on the playground. Is Blue Cat flying, or jumping on the trampoline? Is Red Dog diving, or hanging from the monkey bars? Is Yellow Bird sleeping, or zooming down the slide? The 24-page book features "cardstock pages that are thick and won't rip or tear, making this a high quality product," Sondra Santos LaBrie, marketing manager at Kane/Miller Book Publishers, told TDmonthly. Launch date: September 1, 2007.

Narrated by Ben Affleck, the Red Sox Baby DVD allows young children to share in the love, loyalty and excitement many families feel toward the Red Sox. Red Sox Baby uses officially licensed footage of the Red Sox sports to expose children to the Red Sox in an exciting, playful and educational manner. It is a fun-filled, colorful and stimulating visual experience that will encourage young sports enthusiasts. Launch date: April 2007.

Pulse-pounding racing highlights spotlight racecar driving’s top competitors, tracks and teams and is interspersed with extensive imagery of adorable kids decked out in NASCAR gear. "NASCAR Baby introduces kids to the sights, sounds, colors, shapes, numbers and superstars of NASCAR,” said Greg Scheinman, CEO and Creator of Team Baby Entertainment. The footage is tied together through the narration of Jay Leno and an engaging storyline by celebrated children’s author Jim Buckley. Launch date: January 2007.

Winner of Parenting Magazine’s Video of the Year Award, this DVD features classical instruments matched to different animals.  An elephant lumbering to the sound of a guitar and a frog hopping to the sound of a clarinet are just two examples.  The colorful images build in a unique, puzzle-like fashion as each scene progresses, at a pace developed specifically for young children.  The DVD includes interactive story cards that can be played on a television set with a remote control.  This movie runs approximately 30 minutes.

This system reinforces vocabulary in English and Spanish through repetition, provides interactive learning, and introduces children 18 months and up to a second language. Its multimedia approach helps parents by presenting words in a visual and auditory format (“My First Words” DVD) and using three board books to review words. Bina the butterfly puppet holds the book for an engaging reading time and can be used without the book to practice words learned. “Raise a Reader is the only system that allows parents to start teaching a second language earlier than any other product, with a review technique that no other product has — all the words … are reviewed in the board books,” CEO Valerie Coelho of My Little Thinkers told TDmonthly. Launch date: January 2007.