Archive for the 'educational toys' Category

Best Children Toys: Nintendo Wii — whee!

Monday, August 18th, 2008

The Nintendo trend doesn’t seem to be going anywhere this year. The stores are, of course, already gearing up for Christmas, so we here at Best Children Toys are officially beginning a Countdown to Christmas series! One out of every three posts will be dedicated to the toys that look like they’ll be hot sellers [...]

Best Children Toys: Leaping Ahead with LeapFrog.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Back in the day, we had things like Speak & Spell and Speak & Math, courtesy of Texas Instruments. There was nothing more satisfying than learning how to spell “chrysanthemum” or how to multiply 53×6 in a creepy, robotic voice, quite reminiscent of the Family Guy version of Stephen Hawking’s voice. These days, kids have [...]