Award Winning Toys 2009 - The Best Of The Best!

Established in 1978, Parents' Choice is the nation's oldest nonprofit guide to quality children's media and toys.

The Foundation's purpose is to search out and recommend products that help kids grow - imaginatively, physically, morally and mentally-fairly priced products that are fun, safe and socially sound.
Parents' Choice reviews books, toys, music, television, software, videogames, websites, and magazines for children and families of all achievements and backgrounds.

Parents' Choice recommends toys with staying power, books with honesty and integrity of characters, illustration of elegance and imagination, music that families can sing together, storytelling that teaches us lessons from lands and cultures close and far away, magazines that do not mask editorial content in advertising, television that teaches with civility and not chaos, and software and videogames that encourage sharpening skills not leveling landscapes.

The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio was founded in 1989 as the only independent consumer review of children's media by child development experts Joanne Oppenheim and her daughter Stephanie Oppenheim.

Unlike most other groups that rate products, we do not charge entry fees or accept ads from manufacturers. When consumers see our award seals on products, they can be assured that they are "award-winning" because they were selected by a noted expert in child development, children's literature, and education, and further tested by the most objective panel of judges-kids.

Companies submit products to us all year long. We review the submissions, weeding out products that are unsafe, unsound or obviously unworthy. Promising products are then kid tested by families nationwide. Finally, these results are considered by the experts as part of the overall evaluation of the product.
Unlike publications that rely exclusively on the judgement of kid-testers, our reviews take kid-tester's response to a product as one of the many factors to be considered, along with educational and play value, safety, age appropriateness, and other factors.

Their Oppenheim Toy Portfolio awards have become a benchmark of excellence with consumers, toy makers and the media. They have appeared on OPRAH, CNN, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, MSNBC, Lifetime, and both are Contributors to NBC's TODAY Show.

The Mom's Choice Awards® is an annual awards competition that recognizes authors, inventor, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media products and services.

An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of our panel members includes:

Dr. Twila C. Liggett
Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow

Julie Aigner-Clark
Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project

Jodee Blanco
New York Times Best-Selling Author

LeAnn Thieman
Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books

Tara Paterson
Certified Parent Coach, founder of The Just For Mom Foundation(TM), the Mom's Choice Awards® and the online web resource justformom.com

The iParenting Media Awards Program seeks to provide a credible and objective method of determining outstanding products in the marketplace and then honors them with our consumer award.

Our reviewers are a diverse set of parents, experts, licensed childcare centers and schools nationwide. Our awards program provides you with relevant reviewer feedback about your product - regardless of whether it is an award-winner or not. And award-winning products are promoted to consumers and trade professionals, including retailers, through our Web sites, video, podcasts and radio show.

Dr. Toy's Guide, the world's first website to provide timely and professional guidance on the best in toys and educational products, offers year-round, award-winning toy and children's product information plus valuable articles, useful resources, links and much more. Over the years thousand of toys and children's products have been selected for the special recognition provided by awards of excellence by Dr. Toy.

This award-winning site is a free public service provided by The Institute for Childhood Resources, a not-for-profit organization. Dr. Toy provides children, parents, teachers, grandparents and other adults with important year-round information about the Dr. Toy award winning products.. The awards provide recognition aoout the best educational and developmentally appropriate products and include toys, dolls, games, puzzles, books, software, CDs, audio and video discs and tapes, creative materials, construction toys, technology and much more!