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A Select List of Parents' Choice Award Winners

In partnership with Parents' Choice, ToyDirectory.com is pleased to present you with a select list of 20 manufacturers who have won the prestigious Parents' Choice Award. This list includes over 20 award-winning products from 20 manufacturers.

The 20 manufactures listed on this page are highly recommended by ToyDirectory.com for their outstanding achievements.

Parents’ Choice Foundation, the nation's oldest not-for-profit evaluator of children's media. Established in 1978 Parents' Choice established benchmarks for the industry, trust for the consumers and credibility in the media.

When you contact the manufacturers listed on this page, please mention the "ToyDirectory.com Press Release."

Product: Aesop's Fables
Price: $14.99 Retail
Age Range: 5-12 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(2001)

Company: Imagilot Entertainment
Contact Name: Jake Eberle
Email: j.eberle@verizon.net
Telephone: 310-453-6205
Website: www.imaginationstation.cc

A completely new and wonderfully entertaining adaptation of eight classic fables by Aesop. This is a magical CD that children love to listen to over and over! With hilarious characters, clever original music and sound effects, you'll find yourself transported right into the middle of this wonderful and friendly forest where all of Aesop's animals live and learn
together.

Product: AIR POGO-the Pogo Swing
Price: $125.00
Age Range: 3 - 10 yrs. (up to 90 lbs.)

Winner of a Parents' Choice Classic Award
(1999)

Company: HYPERGEE, inc.
Contact Name: Sarah Webb
Email: webb@airpogo.com
Telephone: 601-268-6250 or 800-880-7646
Website: www.airpogo.com

AIR POGO, the pogo swing, gives kids a big bounce in the air instead of on the pavement. When suspended from a tree limb, deck or other substantial support of 8 1/2 ft. kids get a great ride - swinging and bouncing up to 2 1/2 ft. without touching the ground! Featured in Parents Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.

Product: Be A Hula Girl Video and Hula Costume Set
Price: $24.99
Age Range: 3-9 yrs.

Winner of Parents' Choice Approved
(2001)

Company: Questar, Inc.
Contact Name: Lynn Rand
Email: questarchi@aol.com
Telephone: 1-800-544-8422
Website: www.questar1.com

Now any little girl can learn how to hula in half an hour with master dancer and instructor Leina'ala Kuloloio. Whether celebrating a birthday, Hula-themed party or just dressing up, young girls will love wearing their own grass skirt and seashell lei as they dance and sing along to two of Hawaii's favorite songs, "Pearly Shells" and the "Hukilau Song". Critically-acclaimed, this program has received: The Parents' Choice 2001 Approved Award. Order now for Spring 2002 delivery!

Product: Beth Manners' Magic Spanish for Kids, Beth Manners' Magic French for Kids, Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids
Price: $12.98 for compact discs, $9.98 for cassette
Age Range: 2-6 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(1998)
Winner of two Parents' Choice Approved
(2000)

Company: Future Boomers Corp.
Contact Name: Beth Manners
Email: beth@bethmanners.com
Telephone: 203-454-4543
Website: www.bethmanners.com
Toy Fair Booth Number: Rounder Kids, Booth: 4914/Newsound: Booth 3326

Created especially for 2-6 year olds - the best age for language learning. These award-winning compact discs feature stories, original songs, interactive games, and zany sound effects. Children want to listen over and over - the best way to learn languages.

Product: Bilingual Baby: French and Bilingual Baby: Spanish
Price: $16.95
Age Range: 1-5 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2000)

Company: Small Fry Productions
Contact Name: Jill Pruitt
Email: jill@small-fry.com
Telephone: 1-800-521-5311
Website: www.small-fry.com
Toy Fair Booth Number: 6205

First two videos of a 12-volume series. Multi-ethnic children, familiar objects, happy music and regionally-neutral native speakers introduce over 60 words & phrases to young viewers . Other Small Fry Parents' Choice Award winners include Baby's First Impressions: Numbers, and Jingle Bell Baby.

Product: Can You Dig® It Sand Tools™
Price: $10.99 retail
Age Range: Family activity for all ages with a target of 7 and up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(2001)

Company: Days At The Beach!
Contact Name: Matt Long
Email: matt@daysatthebeach.com
Telephone: 718-273-4954
Toy Fair Booth Number: 6322

This is the first toy/tools designed for sculpting sand at the beach. The package is newly redesigned, and the pricing is new (less) for 2002. There is an active national marketing campaign underway and some great selling tools are available.

Product: Flips, Snakes, & Ladders and MADmath
Price: $19.95
Age Range: Flips, Snakes and Ladders 3 yrs-Up; MADmath 8 yrs-Up

Winner of two Parents' Choice Recommended
(1998, 2000)

Company: PATRIX, cunningly educational games.
Telephone: (450) 242 2380 Fax: (450) 632 1210
Toy Fair Booth Number: # 3343 at the Jacob Javits in New York

FLIPS adds strategy to the classic ladder game. Roll the dice to flip the reversible snakes and ladders for your next move.

Learning multiplications with MADmath is quick, easy and fun; roll the dice and multiply to position your pawns and win.

Product: Games with a Twist and
Games for Younger Players
Price: $22.00
Age Range: 8 yrs-Up, 6 yrs-Up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(2001)

Company: Center for Hands on Learning
Contact Name: Lynn Nordstrom
Email: info@handsonlearning.org
Telephone: 800-894-1492

Both sets have four games from various cultures. Although easy to learn, they require some strategic thinking. Each includes instructions and a brief historical background. Each game is separately packed in a CD-style case for convenient storage or travel portability.

Product: Lawrence D. Duck: Language Arts Private Eye
Price: $49.00 Consumers version
Age Range: 3 - 8 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Approved
(2000)

Company: Lawrence Productions, Inc.
Contact Name: Michele L. Shelton
Email: mshelton@lpi.com
Telephone: 800-421-4157
Website: www.lpi.com; www.lawrencesoftware.com

Student private eyes join forces with super sleuth, Lawrence D. Duck, as they investigate "Footprints", "Locks" "Keys" and "Clues" in order to solve one of over 300 mysteries in this make-believe town of Huntsville, USA. The program offers three levels of difficulty in an exciting interactive environment and meets the language arts standards in vocabulary, sentence structure, capitalization, dictionary, and punctuation. Improves deductive reasoning abilities and grammar skills. WIN/MAC hybrid CD-Rom, Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT and iMAC compatible.

Product: Learning Shoe (Item #KA206)
Age Range: 0 - 36 months
Price: $21.99

Winner of a Parents' Choice Approved
(2000)

Company: PEL-USA Inc.
Contact Name: Steve Booton
Telephone: 416-439-0044

This shoe is full of activities - buttons & lacing, zippers and pulls. The bottom of the shoe contains a mirror (unbreakable) and the nose rattles. This is one very colorful learning shoe.

Product: Mia's Math Adventure - "Just In Time"
Price: $29.99
Age Range: 6 - 10 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award
(2001)

Company: TOPICS Entertainment
Contact Name: Aaron Zeigler
Email: aaron@topics-ent.com
Telephone: (425) 656-3621
Website: www.topics-ent.com

The Mia Difference:
With groundbreaking 3-D graphics and revolutionary game-play format, Mia makes learning fun. Developed by award winning animators, musicians and educators, every minute of play is designed
to spark children's interest and stir their imagination. This is what separates the Mia Adventure series
from any other children's software - a successful mix of entertainment and quality education. WIN/MAC hybrid CD-ROM, Windows: 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT & XP - MAC: O/S 8.1 or better, inc. I-MAC

Product: NameTrains™
Price: $1.95 / $2.25 per car (wholesale) or $4.75 retail
Age Range: 3 yrs-Up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2001)

Company: Maple Landmark, Inc.
Contact Name: Michael Rainville
Email: mike@maplelandmark.com
Telephone: 800-421-4223

NameTrains make spelling child's names fun. Made from hard maple, they connect with magnets. The assorted colored letters are sold individually so any name can be assembled. They are compatible with Maple Landmark's broader wooden train system (and other brands).

Product: Nick Jr. Magazine
Price: 10 issues for $1.99 an issue
Age Range: Preschoolers and their parents

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(2001)

Company: Nick Jr. Magazine
Contact Name: Wendy Smolen
Email: wendy.smolen@nick.com
Telephone: 212-654-6385
Website: www.nickjr.com

Nick Jr. Magazine is filled with do-together activities and stories for parents and their preschoolers to share. It's where "kids play-to-learn" + "parents learn-to-play."

Product: Phonics 2 - Intermediate Level
Price: $29.95
Age Range: 5 - 9 yrs. (appropriate for all ages 5 and above)

Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award
(2001)

Company: Help Me 2 Learn Company
Contact Name: Dan Sheffield
Email: dan@helpme2learn.com
Telephone: 877-416-0943
Website: www.helpme2learn.com

Reading and Spelling development using Phonics becomes a finger-snapping, toe-tapping experience with this musical multimedia program that teaches blends, digraphs, diphthongs, rhyming words, compound words, synonyms, antonyms and homonyms. Teaching activities, learn the words, games, a review and much more.

Product: Rock 'N Learn Multiplication Rock Video
Price: $14.99
Age Range: 8 yrs.-Up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2001)

Company: Rock 'N Learn, Inc.
Contact Name: Kathie Caudle
Email: kathie@rocknlearn.com
Telephone: 800-348-8445

Kids enjoy these exciting videos using cool music and colorful imagery. Energetic performers and positive lyrics keep kids focused and wanting to watch these videos again and again! Themes include space exploration, a rockin' classroom, and much more. Definitely the most fun and effective way to learn multiplication facts through 12. Approx. 30 minutes

Product: Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazine
Price: $3.50 per issue (newstand) & 13 issues @ $29.95
Age Range: 8-14 yrs

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2001)

Company: Time Inc.
Contact Name: Jenifer Ogden-Reese, Consumer Marketing Director
Email: marcia_best@timeinc.com
Telephone: 212-522-4385

SI For Kids delivers the excitement and passion of sports to kids and tweens in an action-oriented, authentic and interactive style. Each issue is packed with inside stories, athlete interviews, stats and photos. Kids who love sports love reading SI For Kids.

Product: Susan Salidor: By Heart and Color Me Singing - Music for Children and Their Families
Price: $14 per CD plus $1 shipping per item (available through website)
Age Range: Birth - 8 yrs-Up

Winner of two Parents' Choice Gold Awards
(1998, 1999)

Company: Peachhead Productions
Contact Name: Susan Salidor
Email: ssalidor@aol.com
Telephone: 773-271-5568
Website: www.SusanSalidor.com (CDs are available with a credit card)
Toy Fair Booth Number: Rounder Kids, Booth: 4914

Susan's award-winning recordings are a delightful mix of original and traditional music for children and their families. Known for writing songs that speak to the heart and humor of childhood and parenting, Susan is also a gifted singer and arranger. (Her music has garnered raves from kids and parents alike, along with featured reviews in Sesame Street Parents, Family Fun Magazine, and Publisher's Weekly, which gave Color Me Singing its prestigious "Listen Up" award.)

Product: Veggie Tales: "Lyle the Kindly Viking"
Price: VHS - $12.99; DVD - $14.99
Age Range: 6-12 yrs.

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2001)

Company: Big Idea Productions
Contact Name: Shari Martin (Director of Licensing)
Email: shari.martin@bigidea.com
Telephone: 630-652-6000

Winner of 2 Parents Choice Awards, Big Idea Productions presents the newest animated musical VeggieTales production of "Lyle The Kindly Viking" filled with wacky humor and lovable characters that impart important lessons and loads of laughs for families.

Product: Wiggly Giggly Plush
Price: $7.50 Wholesale/MSRP $15.00
Age Range: Infant and up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Recommended
(2001)

Company: HandsOn Toys
Contact Name: Deana Tolliver
Email: deana@handsontoys.com
Telephone: 978.988.1141
Website: www.handsontoys.com
Toy Fair Booth Number: 1733H

The popular Wiggly Giggly® line grows with Wiggly Giggly Plush®. These Ducks, Ladybugs, Frogs and Hedgehogs feature squeaky noses, crinkly feet, and a removable Wiggly Giggly ball. Now animals are boxed - perfect for adding to your Wiggly Giggly display.

Product: WordXchange®
Price: $28.95
Age Range: 10 yrs-Up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor
(2001)

Company: PRODIJEUX INC.
Contact Name:Michel Chiarore
Email: michel@prodijeux.com
Telephone: 1-866-FUN-WORD (1-866-386-9673)

WordXchange® pits you against opponents and clock in all-out battle to be first to make six words. The catch? No word is safe! Steal your opponents' words, add a letter and re-shuffle them into one of your own.

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