Most Viewed TDmonthly Magazine Stories (Past 3 Months)
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Learning Resources Keeps Teaching in 25th Year In 1984, Jane Woldenberg realized a need in the educational market for hands-on elementary school math products. Her solution was creating Learning Resources...
9/1/2009
Most Viewed TDmonthly Magazine Stories (Past 12 Months)
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HEXBUGs Trio Plays With Technology If a robot toy were crossed with an insect, what would you get? A HEXBUG! For Innovation First, the result has been a sellout, with demand overwhelming supply in the products’ first year...
1/1/2009
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Munipals Puts Fay Graphic on Track Incentive to get the wheels in motion for a line of wooden toy trains modeled after the New York subway came from a son’s question at the dinner table...
12/1/2008
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The Shred Sled Carves a New Niche From the moment he saw the product at the Hong Kong Gifts and Premium Show in April 2008, Eric King knew he’d found something special. Six months later, just in time for Christmas, he introduced the Shred Sled in the United States — and watched it sell out...
2/1/2009
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Learning Resources Keeps Teaching in 25th Year In 1984, Jane Woldenberg realized a need in the educational market for hands-on elementary school math products. Her solution was creating Learning Resources...
9/1/2009
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SphereXYZ Engages Hands and Minds Combine two inventors with a passion for brainteasers, and what do you get? SphereXYZ, a uniquely challenging 3-D puzzle that successfully blends fun and mental skill...
8/1/2009
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Cloud B Soothes Children to Sleep Created with the desire to help children sleep and simplify parents’ lives, Cloud B’s award-winning plush and apparel products are delivering what everybody wants: a better night’s sleep...
7/1/2009
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Binkley & Hurst Takes a Ride With Berg Toys Conceived more than 20 years ago by a Dutch boy who longed to own a go-cart, Berg Toys has grown into a worldwide market leader in the manufacture of outdoor toys...
7/1/2009
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Bigfoot & Pickle Face Creations Stamp For Fun Developing a product that encourages creativity and can grow with a child presented an exciting challenge for Cheryl Marchek, owner and founder of Bigfoot & Pickle Face Creations...
6/1/2009
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Just Jump It Offers Perfect Twist of Fun and Safety In 1992, 17 years after the founding of Cressline Rope Works, a sales rep for the bulk-rope purveyor suggested to Owner Darrel Cresswell that the company create a jump rope. Darrel and his partner at the time, Don Meeker, jumped at the opportunity to give it a try...
6/1/2009
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Corolle Dolls Enchant Every Age Since 1978, Corolle’s finely crafted, award-winning dolls have brightened countless children’s lives with their smiles and cuddly bodies...
5/1/2009
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Mashoonga! Creates New Sport for Teens and Tweens Advertising executive Jim Bogner was at a crossroads in his career in the fall of 2006 when he noticed his 13-year-old son, Luke, and friends playing the same “sword game” daily...
5/1/2009
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PlayTown Mats™ Map the Way to Fun When Sam R. Harkreader was told his line of PlayTown Mats™ couldn’t be made in the United States, he saw a challenge. As he works to keep his cost margins down, he told TDmonthly Magazine, he’s “almost ready to jump up and down and claim victory.”...
4/1/2009
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PakNaks Offer Personality That Sticks When stay-at-home moms Anne Mersereau and Marissa Crouch decided to start a business, they turned to their children, and PakNaks interchangeable stickers with personality were born...
3/1/2009
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Family Pastimes Promotes Cooperative Play In 1970, as Jim Deacove was sitting in his backyard watching neighborhood kids playing games, some “heady insights” occurred to him about the nature of traditional, confrontational game play...
3/1/2009
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MagnaPlay Cases Hit Market in Just Months MagnaPlay, a magnet toy company, grew from a project that scientist Maya Gowri was working on with her 10-year-old son, who had to develop a board game for a class project, she told TDmonthly Magazine...
2/1/2009
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The Shred Sled Carves a New Niche From the moment he saw the product at the Hong Kong Gifts and Premium Show in April 2008, Eric King knew he’d found something special. Six months later, just in time for Christmas, he introduced the Shred Sled in the United States — and watched it sell out...
2/1/2009
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Playmobil Offers Foundation for Kids’ Creative Play Introducing between 80 and 100 themed playsets, accessories and figures every year, Playmobil toys help to stimulate children’s imaginations and create endless adventures...
1/1/2009
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HEXBUGs Trio Plays With Technology If a robot toy were crossed with an insect, what would you get? A HEXBUG! For Innovation First, the result has been a sellout, with demand overwhelming supply in the products’ first year...
1/1/2009
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Munipals Puts Fay Graphic on Track Incentive to get the wheels in motion for a line of wooden toy trains modeled after the New York subway came from a son’s question at the dinner table...
