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Popular Toy Brands is a subject that can go on forever, but we will narrow it down to some of the top toys for year 2006 and 2007. Millions of new toys get stocked on shelves, and its hard to determine which ones are the best brands.

Crayola has been around for quite some time, and most every child has owned some or used one at some time in their life. They are a trusted brand for kids and encourage them to be creative and imaginative. They started out with just coloring products then went more towards education, modeling, and toys & activities. Crayola came out with a really useful product called the Crayola Mess-Free Disposable Mats. These brightly colored and patterned water resistant mats have adhesive strips on two sides which you can attach to any surface. The strips help the mats to stay in place, and your child can paint, draw, use model clay or enjoy any messy activities without worrying about dirtying the underlying surface! After use, it's extremely convenient to simply strip them off the surface, roll up and toss away. If you wish to reuse them, the mats are easy to clean. The colors and patterns add to the fun and excitement of creating something new. The mats are available in sizes 24" x 24" and come in an 8 pack or a 20 pack.

According to About.com, electronic story book readers seem to be the hottest trend nowadays. They combine two of my favorite things - reading and technology! My First Story Reader from Publications International is a baby and toddler sized version of the original Story Reader. Kids aged between 6 months to 3 years will love pressing the big colorful buttons on the unit and listening to the stories via the My First Story Reader. My First Story Reader is aimed at the pre-reader segment and is a slickly designed product. Two play patterns are designed to engage your your toddler's attention through multiple readings of specially designed storybooks. My First Story Reader is a well designed, portable, and lightweight unit.

Another popular brand that's well-known and trusted is Leap Frog. Leap Frog is a leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative, technology-based educational products and related proprietary content. LeapFrog is 100% focused on developing products that will provide the most engaging, effective learning experience - for all ages, in school or home, around the world. We put learning first - a philosophy that distinguishes us from our competitors and fuels the entire company.
Struggling readers that use LeapTrack Reading Pro make gains up to 28% in reading. My First LeapPad items are top sellers for kids that are aged 3 and up. They teach alphabets, numbers, and fun games!
Being kids are so into video games and GameBoys, Leap Frog came out with a Leapster Learning Game system that teaches Letters, Phonics, Rhyming, Spelling, Numbers, Counting, Addition, Subtraction, and Art and Music. This is a guaranteed product to help your child. This portable toy is is easy to play anywhere and easy to learn everywhere!
 The Award Winning Toy, LeapFrog iQuest Handheld This talking handheld combines fast-paced quiz games with PDA functionality to revolutionize the way your child studies. Designed to act as a portable, personal study tool, the iQuest handheld makes studying more fun and engaging. It helps kids in grades 5 - 8 prepare for tests and quizzes in math, science and social studies by asking questions based on their textbooks*. So it's relevant to what they're already studying, not extra work. Audio, animations and scores make studying fun, fast and effective. Kids pop a subject cartridge into the iQuest handheld; select their publisher, textbook and chapter; then start playing and studying. Or they select a topic to let the learning games begin. And older kids use this portable tool with the college test prep cartridge to get a leg up studying for the SAT, PSAT and ACT.

Anatex is another popular brand. They were the first company to manufacture and distribute Rollercoaster wire bead maze frames in the United States and North America. They have been awarded the Parents' Choice Classic which recognized the Rollercoaster as the Original. The Rollercoaster is also a Dr. Toy Best Classic Toys Winner.

Anatex was commended by the USC School of Business for it's unique and innovative marketing plan of promoting toys through the American Academy of pediatrics. For more than a decade the Rollercoaster has been called "The Best Doctor's Office Toy".
 

We have talked to many vendors and did an incredible amount of research and put together only a few selected items that are top sellers and do great during the Holiday Season. This is what Farm Goods for Kids said:

Kids are infatuated with the games that they play including being an explorer. We carry a popular brand called 'I Dig Dinosaurs' and each package includes heavy-duty sand with astonishing explorations inside and a digging tool only for the best explorers, and digging goggles! These sets allow kids to be what they want to be when they grow up now! It provides hours of fun and features easy clean-up! Kids will have fun over and over again on the different adventures they create with these prehistoric creatures!

Did You Know? On April 14, 2005 scientists discovered rare eggs inside a female dinosaur fossil. They say that dinosaurs produced eggs in some ways like a crocodile and in other ways like a bird. Crocodiles and similar primitive reptiles have two ovaries enabling them to lay a clutch of eggs. Birds have a single ovary and can only lay one egg at a time. How is that possible you may ask yourself. Well, the dinosaur's egg-producing capability lay somewhere in between suggesting a link with a modern bird, researchers said, It could produce more than one egg, but only one from each ovary at a time.
 

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