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Families Flip Over Wild Creations Frogs TDmonthly Magazine’s Roundtable participants recently adopted new pets and created an eco-system with Wild Creations’ Classic Water Garden Starter Kit Eco-Aquarium...
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How a 5-MINUTE CHALLENGE® Trumps Challenging Times On the prowl for a product that meets the needs of the times, TDmonthly Magazine and TOYDIRECTORY took a trip to Redondo Beach to visit Kathie and Marshall Gavin, founders of b. dazzle, inc. and makers of Scramble Squares® brain-teaser puzzles...
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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...
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Toys in the News: 11-20-09 The Toy Industry Association announced Friday the finalists for the 2010 TOTY (Toy of the Year) Awards, a program that will mark its 10th year...
How a 5-MINUTE CHALLENGE® Trumps Challenging Times On the prowl for a product that meets the needs of the times, TDmonthly Magazine and TOYDIRECTORY took a trip to Redondo Beach to visit Kathie and Marshall Gavin, founders of b. dazzle, inc. and makers of Scramble Squares® brain-teaser puzzles...
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Science & Nature Toys It’s becoming easier and easier for toy stores to bring “life” to science lessons, with butterfly homes, frog-filled aquariums, multiple ant farms and all sorts of robotic creatures...
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...
Families Flip Over Wild Creations Frogs TDmonthly Magazine’s Roundtable participants recently adopted new pets and created an eco-system with Wild Creations’ Classic Water Garden Starter Kit Eco-Aquarium...
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Retailer Spotlight: The Tutoring Toy A desire to work together as a family first led Diane and Bill Sartain to investigate opening a toy store, and the opportunity to help parents understand the value of play clinched the deal in 1988...
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TDmonthly’s Charitable Kid Contest #1: Schoenhut Piano Co. Inc. Will YOUR Customer Give Away 100 Schoenhut Pianos? TDmonthly Magazine is teaming up with manufacturers, specialty retailers and kids to bring joy – and toys! – into the lives of needy children...
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Retailers Take Home Extras in Toy Giveaway Want to score some great samples for your store, or really get to check out new toys by having them in hand? TDmonthly Magazine's new Weekly Toy Giveaway Sweepstakes for Storeowners gives your store the chance to bring in extra product...
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New ABC Conference Aims to Inform The ABC Kids Expo is in its seventh year, with plans to take over the Las Vegas Convention Center again this September. But this year, All Baby & Child is also offering something completely new...
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MORE Secret Lives of Toymakers What is it like to have $100,000 on the line and no buyers? Find out by watching more rough sequences from ToyDirectory's upcoming documentary...
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TDmonthly's Top-10 Toy Fair Toys Among the tens of thousands of products on display at Toy Fair, there's always a select few that stand out, especially in terms of their promise for the specialty market. This year, TDmonthly Magazine was pleased to find an even broader variety of eco-friendly goods...
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom recently found a tree full of creative play possibilities, practiced logic with colorful cubes, brushed up on spelling, and Bingo’d her way to a nutritious lifestyle...
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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...
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Regional Reports: What’s Selling … And Where Sticky Mosaics by Orb Factory are just blowing away the competition. Not only did they rank at the top for girls’ arts and crafts toys, but some storeowners reported they were the best-selling item in the store...
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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...
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What Roundtables Mean for You Throughout the year, TDmonthly Magazine's Roundtable reviewers — parents, their children, and occasionally retailers and experts — don their testing gloves and give their honest feedback about dolls, toys, games and infant products...
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In This Issue If you’re going to Toy Fair in February, prepare with TDmonthly Magazine’s videos and tips here...
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The Learning Journey International is an international manufacturer and distributor of an exclusive line of award-winning children’s interactive educational products. Our products encourage learning and confidence building as they enhance a child’s potential. All products build on the skills necessary for children to be ready for school as they prepare to become our leaders of tomorrow. To learn more about The Learning Journey, please visit them online at www.thelearningjourney.com or contact them toll free at 877-839-3969... More information on THE LEARNING JOURNEY INTERNATIONAL products.
