January 2014 New Specialty Toys — Gifts

Play with the texture of your favorite cocktail to add an element of surprise, and experience the unexpected with three avant-garde recipes. Create a margarita slush topped with a fresh lemon mousse, add a splash of colour by creating blue azure suspended pearls or encapsulate your margarita into an edible cocktail! Includes 10 pre-measured food additive sachets, specialized utensils and Recipe & Instructions booklet.

Impress your friends with three recipes that push the boundaries of modern mixology. Serve a cosmopolitan bubble on a spoon that will pop in your mouth, top off your cocktail with a light fluffy cranberry foam or suspend citrus caviar in your drink. Includes 10 pre-measured food additive sachets, specialized utensils and Recipe & Instructions booklet.

Bring your culinary creativity to the next level and impress your guests with spectacular dishes such as mint caviar beads that burst in the mouth, chocolate spaghetti, lemon foam or tzatziki spheres! This all-encompassing, Do-It-Yourself kit includes all you need to experiment at home with the molecular techniques seen on Top Chef and in high-end restaurants, but without the celebrity chef price tag! Includes 40 pre-measured food additive sachets, specialized utensils and 50-recipe DVD; retails at USD 58.95.

Part of their newly launched children's line, Central Bark is a 24 piece puzzle for kids 3+

One of many popular collage puzzles, Ice Cream is a colorful 1000 piece collage puzzle of nostalgic Ice Cream images.

Beautiful feathers are turned into a fun pen. These feather pens can add a touch of whimsy and style to your writing. It’s a great item to add when using a guestbook. 

White Mountain Puzzles is the exclusive licensee of the Terry Redlin Collection. America's most widely collected painter of Nature and Americana.

A 1,000 piece collage of vintage candy wrappers. Our #1 selling jigsaw puzzle in the U.S.
Awards: 2014 TDmonthly Magazine Top Toy Award

The immensely popular line of mystical mermaids and sea life, Sea Sparkles, is a huge hit for Aurora and expands for 2014 to include all new mermaids and sea friends characters called "Sea Sprites." Utilizing all new designs and colors, the dolls and sea friends feature colorful yarn hair and sparkling, shimmering fabrics, making Aurora’s top selling doll line a stand out at retail. (MSRP: $8-$35 depending on style)

Venture deep into the jungle on an animal-naming safari hunt in Jungle Book: A BabyLit Animals Primer. Spy a sneaky snake, a lazy bear, and a proud panther before roaring like a tiger into the night. Jennifer Adam’s carefully curated quotations provide the best of Rudyard Kipling’s descriptions of Kaa, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan and more while teaching little ones the characteristics of these colorful jungle animals.
— Dan Marshall, co-owner of Peapods Natural Toys & Baby Care in St. Paul, Minn., told TDmonthly in a December 2013 survey that this is one of their best-selling books.

Indestructibles are the books built for the way babies read. They are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof. Printed on a unique nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to anything babies can throw at it—gumming, spilling, dragging across the floor— Indestructibles are the little books that could. They’re indestructible. And if they get dirty, just throw them in the washing machine or dishwasher. Baby Babble is a first vocabulary book, featuring baby at the table: spoon, banana, cheese. Baby at play: blocks, teddy bear. Inside baby’s house: lamp, socks, crib. Outside baby’s window: cloud!
— Dan Marshall, co-owner of Peapods Natural Toys & Baby Care in St. Paul, Minn., told TDmonthly in a December 2013 survey that this is one of their best-selling books.

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older, he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave. Since it was first published fifty years ago, Shel Silverstein's moving parable for readers of all ages has offered an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.
— Barb Stine, owner of Toys on the Square in Hershey, Pa., told TDmonthly in a December 2013 survey that this is one of their best-selling books.