Winner of Dr. Toy’s Best Vacation Products of 2005 award, Story Reader™ is the first-ever portable electronic storybook reader for kids aged three to eight, offering a fun experience that lets kids learn to love to read at their own pace. As each page is turned, a narrator reads aloud, yet the patented technology is completely invisible. The lightweight, portable design features a hinged clamshell-style unit with carrying handle. Story Reader is the nation’s best-selling line of preschool books. The unit is accompanied by a book based on Disney/Pixar’s “Finding Nemo”.

The new Sight and Sound: Words books are 64-page interactive soundbooks that feature a built-in five-mode learning module. Kids’ all-time favorite characters guide them through activities and get young learners excited about spelling, letters and reading through hands-on interaction, sound and full-color graphics. The keypad module features an LCD screen and several interactive modes.

Coming in Spring 2006, My First Story Reader is a smaller, re-designed version of Story Reader, the first-ever portable electronic storybook reader for kids that has become the best-selling preschool book line in the country. My First Story Reader brings popular stories and characters to life. A narrator reads aloud as each page is turned, while My First Story Reader adds sound effects and music. Each 12-page, full-color book features beautiful graphics and illustrations and is printed on durable board stock. My First Story Reader is designed for safe use by little hands and features a clamshell-style unit with an easy-grip handle. It features a volume control and two distinct play options: interactive rhyming verse narration and question-and-answer mode. Batteries are included. Refill three-packs are separately available, at $15.99 each.

This unique reading aid can be hooked up to the television so kids can play extra fun educational games. The kit features the Alphabet Adventure book, a 21-page book that guides kids on a wonderful adventure as they read. Taking up where the original Story Reader left off, Story Reader Video Plus takes reading and learning games to a new level, offering kids aged 3 to 8 all the features of the classic Story Reader combined with the appeal and entertainment value of video.

Tiny tots will have hours of learning fun, with this interactive DVD, book and programmable remote. They can use the set with any home DVD player. The book and TV work together to encourage reading. Kids learn about same and different, pattern completion and spatial relationships, while SpongeBob Squarepants solves “The Case of the Missing Krabby Patty.”

Every other page has an interactive word game to play using the attached stylus. Touching each word or picture on the page will activate silly songs, music, and/or voice including the voice of your favorite characters. Your child will learn to rhyme, match words with pictures, and much more.

Press one of ten song buttons and sing along into the hands-free working microphone.

Imagine coming home to a piping-hot dinner every night of the week. In this cookbook you'll find everything from family-favorite main dishes to irresistible desserts all made in your slow cooker.

In only 3 simple steps, you can make any one of over 120 scrumptious appetizers. Impress everyone at gatherings and parties and they'll never know just how quick and easy these taste-pleasing noshes were to prepare.

Learn to knit the easy way, with straightforward, illustrated step-by-step instructions. Dozens of stunning designs, from beginner to advanced intermediate, let you showcase your skills as you practice. A helpful resource directory leads you to the most exciting yarns, the most helpful knit shops, and more.

The characters, cars, speedways, and fender-rubbing action of American stock car racing. Traces the evolution of NASCAR from its regional Southern roots to the polished phenomenon it is today.

More than 100 years of motorcycling history featuring profiles of significant motorcycles in hundreds of sharp color photographs, period ads, and brochures.

Sudoku is the new logic game sweeping the nation--and the world! It's like a crossword puzzle with numbers--but no math is involved. The book has wipe-off pages and a pen, so you can play the games over and over again. Or, if you make a mistake, wipe off the page and start all over! Level 1 book is filled with beginner, easy, and medium puzzles.

Expand your child's vocabulary with this fun Talking Dictionary. Children can input one of 400 pre-school appropriate words (in English or Spanish) using the letters on the module, which are voiced as they are typed and appear on the LCD screen. She can then press ENGLISH to hear the word spoken in English, SPANISH to hear and see the word in both languages, or DEFINITION to hear the word and definition in English.

Allow your child's favorite characters to help teach letter writing and letter recognition using an LCD and gel pad writing surface. First, the child may press the UPPER/lower button to choose whether to see the animation for the uppercase or lowercase version of the letter. Then the child enters a letter by pressing a letter trigger. An animation showing the correct way to form the letter appears on the LCD.

Use the included microphone to sing along with one of 40 classic melodies. At the end of the song, hear what Big Bird, Oscar, and Cookie Monster think about your performance!

All kids want to be like mom and dad, and driving a vehicle is no exception. Steering Wheel books feature a mounted telescoping base with a steering wheel that raises and locks into place. Sound triggers, including the horn button on the wheel, make realistic vehicle sounds to accompany the story.

Almost magically, a narrator reads the book as each page is turned, while Story Reader adds sound effects and music. Story Reader is easy to use...parents or children simply insert the story cartridge, insert the book, and turn the page to let the adventure begin. The Cars book is included with the Story Reader base unit.

My First Story Reader has a lightweight, portable design featuring magnetic closure and a convenient carrying handle. My First Story Reader uses two distinct play options that teach the first steps to reading, sound identification, matching, shapes, and colors. 3 Baby Einstein books are included with the My First Story Reader. Requires AAA Batteries (included).

Delightful cookbook shaped as a slow cooker features over 40 recipes to make for every night of the week. Includes soup, poultry, beef, pork, vegetarian and even dessert recipes that are quick to make and so easy to cleanup.

Perfect for today's busy cooks, Made Simple Baking features simple, contemporary recipes suitable for everyday cooking as well as special occasions. More than 85 easy-to-prepare recipes, including cookies, bars, breads, cakes and desserts. Enjoy these tasty recipes that are sure to please and amaze guests or your family.

The Shape of Performance is a fast-paced look at America's most enduring automotive icon. Featuring a photo-rich year-by-year retelling of Corvette's fascinating history, The Shape of Performance captures the car and the times that helped to shape it. Told in lively captions, the Corvette's history has never been easier, or more fun, to appreciate.