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"Help your child fully develop their understanding of cooperation through activities, games, and toys that engage multiple participants for the highest level of interactive fun." --from Amazon.com

Early Learning
Family Entertainment
Interactive DVD
Math & Spatial Relations
Reading & Phonics Fun
Strategy Builders
Visual Memory and Visual Tracking Vault
Puzzles, the Early Years
Puzzles, the Elementary Years

Early Learning

Suzy's Zoo - My First Words Game

Manufacturer Description

My First Words Game features illustrations of familiar objects. To play, place the cardboard tile on top of the matching object on the board. Game boxes are sized to fit a child's hand and store easily on a bookshelf, safe for toddlers, no small parts and builds language, pre-reading and fine motor skills. Award Winner of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Special Needs and Canadian Toy Testing Council.

Goodnight Moon Game

Manufacturer Description
From the well loved children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown & Clement Hurd. The Goodnight Moon Game promotes visual, matching and manual dexterity skills. 6 ways to play! Winner of 5+ Awards including Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Seal and parents Choice Gold Seal.

The Dinosaur Game - Survival or Extinction

From Parents’ Choice
Dinosaur buffs can "become" a specific dinosaur whose name, habitat, food preference and special characteristics are noted on its card. The game board path meanders through four habitats; in each, native dinosaurs have special advantages. Every square along the path relates to their struggle to survive. (Ruth B. Roufberg, Parent's Choice®, 1996)

Family Entertainment

Cranium Balloon Lagoon

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Interactive DVD

Scene It? The DVD Game - Disney Edition

Manufacturer Description

Pop the game disc into your DVD player and let the movie magic begin! Classic characters and unforgettable songs from your favorite Disney and Disney/Pixar scenes are now in a DVD game. Enjoy real movie clips from much loved films as you answer trivia questions and race around the game board! For two or more players.

SCENE IT? Jr. The DVD Game

Manufacturer Description
SCENE IT? JR. The DVD Game is an interactive board game with cool movie, music, TV and sports trivia that use real video clips! Use your memory skills, your logic and all you know about pop culture to race around the game board and win! For two to four players.

Math & Spatial Relations

Rush Hour

Teacher Review
This variation on the traditional sliding-block puzzle is designed to challenge sequential-thinking skills. As a child learns to play the game, they will progress from a trial-and-error technique to a more strategy-based method. Develops mathematical and spatial abilities, too.

Dino Math Tracks Game

Math Mat Challenge Game

Manufacturer Description

Colorful graphics with stimulating auditory, visual and sensory action make practicing math equations fun with this electronic floor game! Features two skill levels and six different games to reinforce numbers, counting, addition and subtraction. Kids are challenged by a series of timed answers and use their feet to solve the math problems. After three correct answers, the excitement heightens as the timer speeds up, prompting fast-footed action answers. For 2-4 players.

Reading and Phonics Fun

Match and Spell Game

Manufacturer Description

First match the picture tiles to the boards. Then turn over the tiles, match and arrange the color-coded letters to spell one of the twelve words. Develops early reading skills. Game boxes are sized to fit a child's hand and store easily on a bookshelf, safe for toddlers, no small parts and builds language, pre-reading and fine motor skills. Award Winner of Dr. Toy's Best Smart Play/Smart Toy Products, and Canadian Toy Testing Council.

The Letter Factory Game

Manufacturer Description

Teaches Phonics! The race is on! With two games in one, children play together and learn letter names and sounds with actions and music. Wacky Professor Quigley guides players every step of the way so no reading is required! Games automatically adjust to skill level, to keep children learning at just the right pace! 2 Games in 1: Counting Colors & Letters: Learn letter names and sounds by matching color cards to move around the board. Leaping Letters: Listen to the name or sound and then find the card that matches it! Includes: interactive card reader, game board, 26 letter cards and 4 playing pieces.

Strategy Builders

Gobblet Junior

Manufacturer Description
Combining the simplicity of tic-tac-toe with the excitement of surprise attacks and unexpected endings, this multiple award-winning strategy game is fun to play again and again! Gobble up your opponent's pieces and get four in a row to win. Featured on NBC's Today Show: The Best Educational Toys of the Year. Winner of ten Best Toy Awards. All wood, great fun for 2 players, 7 to adult.

Gobblet Game

Manufacturer Description
Combining the simplicity of tic-tac-toe with the excitement of surprise attacks and unexpected endings, this multiple award-winning strategy game is fun to play again and again! Gobble up your opponent's pieces and get four in a row to win. Featured on NBC's Today Show: The Best Educational Toys of the Year. Winner of 10 Best Toy Awards. All wood, great fun for 2 players, 7 to adult.

Sequence For Kids

Manufacturer Description

The object of the game is simple, the first player to make a Sequence of 4 chips in a row using only their colored chips, is the winner! What makes this game so great is that it's now in a version perfect for the younger members of your sequence family. Each card and the game board contain pictures of animals, both real and mythic. If you draw the dragon card, you can take away one of any opponents chip. If you draw the unicorn card, you can place your chip anywhere on the board you like. From Alice the Alligator to Zelda the Zebra, your kids will have fun playing their own version of Sequence.

Blokus Game

Manufacturer Description
Develops logic and special perception while kids learn to be tactical. Players take turns placing pieces on their board, each starting from their corner. Each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners! The goal is to get rid of all your pieces. The game ends when all players are blocked from laying down any more of their pieces. Includes one gameboard with 400 squares, 84 game pieces in four bright translucent colors, and an instruction guide.

Visual Memory and Visual Tracking Vault

I Spy Memory Game

From Parents' Choice
Superb photographs are the basis of this visual memory game. In each case, the "matching" pairs show the same object, but in a different size, position or context. Competitive, word, and cooperative games are included. They range from finding the picture pairs to searching for photos that match the riddle cards to thinking up new associations between the cards. (Ruth B. Roufberg, Parents' Choice, 1995)

Connect Four

Editorial Review
Connect Four is like vertical tic-tac-toe. Unlike tic-tac-toe, however (as the name suggests), you must get four checkers in a row. One player has red checkers; the other has black checkers. To play, alternate turns at dropping one of checkers down a slot at the top of the upright grid. The first player to get four checkers lined up in a row in any direction--horizontal, vertical, or diagonal--wins the game. --Alison Golder

Whac-a Mole

Editorial Review
The classic carnival game of Whac-a-mole comes right into your house in this energetic and highly silly home version. The inherent cruelty of this game is tempered considerably by how much fun the moles appear to be having while receiving repeated blows to the head with big plastic mallets. It must help that each mole gets to wear a helmet, each a different color. One to four players can join in by whacking the critter in front of them during the "sign in" period at the beginning of the game. The object of the game, naturally, is to whack the moles as they pop up and players can choose to have them light up or not. Parents should be aware of course that they are giving big plastic mallets to very young children and the result will almost certainly be that one kid whacks another before too long. It’s just bound to happen. But if those energies can be re-directed toward the moles, this is a fun and silly way to play inside. --Charlie Williams

Puzzles, the Early Years

Large Wooden Farm Jumbo Knob 9-piece Puzzle

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Wooden Hands Counting 12-piece Peg Puzzle

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Wooden Magnetic My First Shapes Book 32-piece

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Wooden Magnetic My First Colors Book 32-piece

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Wooden Magnetic My First Animals Book 32-piece

Manufacturer Description
This innovative magnetic book is bound to amuse and amaze! Read along with the rhyming poems while matching the pieces to their correct puzzle spots! The novel design and unique, artistic graphics open up a new way to learn!

Puzzles, the Elementary Years

Magic Map - United States Puzzle Map

Manufacturer Description

Electronic talking Magic Map. When children place the puzzle pieces into the correct location, the map comes alive and tells the name of the state, state capital and sate nickname. Encourages children to memorize the locations and directions of all states. Children learn to recite "Pledge of Allegiance" and sing "America the Beautiful". Magic Map comes with 44 puzzle pieces that are kept in a storage compartment. Operates on 2 AA batteries (included).