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1996 Top Toys listing
Company Product Age Price Phone
Crescent Cardboard Company Sand Expressions 5-12 $14.99 800-595-5544
Darda/Heroes Puzzle Truck 2-8 $35.50 800-638-1470
Discovery Toys Explorer Express 2-5 $29.98 800-426-4777
Hands On Toys Toobers and Zots 3-7 $29.95 800-500-4699
Mattel Toys Follow the Lights Keyboard 1-1/2-5 $30 800-524-TOYS
Playmates Baby So Beautiful 3-8 $19.99 714-739-1929
Strombecker/Tootsie Toy Sesame Street Wooden Railway 3-6 $49.99 800-944-8697
Tiger Electronics LapTop Smarts 6-10 $49.99 708-913-8100
Today's Kids Action Strike Bowling 3-6 $26 800-258-TOYS
Wild Planet MegaScope 5-10 $18 800-247-6570
Company Product Age Price Phone
Alex Panline USA Water Wonders 7-12 $20 800-666-ALEX
Didax Educational Resources Ready for Math Kit 4-8 $19.95 800-458-0024
Educational Insights Cosmic Observer Telescope 8-12 $35 800-933-3277
Fisher-Price Electronic Discovery Desk 9 mos-3 $54.99 800-432-5437
Knowledge Adventure Jumpstart First Grade 5-7 $40 800-542-4240
LeapFrog Phonics Learning System 3-8 $49.95 800-701-5327
LEGO Dacta Early Simple Machines 5-12 $75 800-527-8339
Playskool All-In-One Fun Learning Center 2-6 $70 800-PLAYSKL
SEGA PICO-Berenstein Bears-A School Day 3-6 $60 800-USA-SEGA
Team Concepts Comquest Junior and Plus 5-12 $70/$150 800-486-0898
Company Product Age Price Phone
BRIO Mini Greenhouse 4-8 $20 800-558-6863
Cultural Toys Soft Baby Blocks 3-24 mos.$7.99 800-805-4542
Fanny's Play House Doll's Disability Equipment 3-8 $53 516-420-1422
Great American Puzzle Factory Where in U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? 4-8 $11.95 800-922-1194
Leeko Industries Sticky Situations 3-8 $9.99 800-938-1915
One World Toys Kids on the Go Playset 3-5 $16.99 718-740-1015
Toy Biz Gerber Hispanic-American Talking Baby Doll 1-3 $34.99 800-270-4287
Twin Sisters Productions Safe and Sound 5-12 $9.98 800-248-8946
Voyagers Voyagers: Discovery of An Amazing Planet 10-12 $15.95 800-767-3317
W.J. Fantasy Games Around the World 4-10 $12.95 800 ABC-PLAY
Company Product Age Price Phone
Children's-Out-of-School Time Activities Club Kits 6-12 $15.95 800-873-5487
Colorations Little Bits o'Paint 3-8 $2.69 800-831-6929
Colorforms Color 'N Play 3-5 $4.99 201-327-2600
Curiosity Kits My Medieval Fairy Tale Adventure 4-8 $15 800-584-KITS
Hero Arts Animal Tracks 8-12 $13.50 800-822-4376
KAPLA KAPLA Blocks 3-13 $59 916-447-5275
Living and Learning Eureka! I'm An Inventor 8-12 $20 800-521-3218
OWI HyperPeppy 10-12 $29.95 800-638-1694
Pastime Industries Country Bouquet 8-12 $14.99 516-588-8700
Wrebbit The Farm 4-10 $14.95 800-WREBBIT
Company Product Age Price Phone
Children's Circle William Steig Library 3-12 $14.95 800-KIDS-VID10 Best Toys by Product Category (Games, Puzzles, Books, Dolls, Software, Educational Products, Arts and Crafts, etc.)
Clayton Productions I Want To Be A Ballerina 3-11 $14.95 800-700-8622
Educational Activities The Dog Ate My Homework 3-8 $11.95 800-645-3739
ExploraToy Beakman's Video Science Activity 8-12 $12.99 800-995-9290
MDP Worldwide Born Wild 5-12 Available for rental at your local video store 310-226-8326
Pearce-Evetts Productions Fingerplays and Action Chants:Animals 2-6 $14.95 800-842-9571
Rock 'N Learn Animals 2-5 $9.95 800-348-8445
Safe-T-Child Yello Dino's Can't Fool Me! 3-10 $11.95 800-828-0098
Spizzirri Publishing Library Album 2-10 $39.95 800-322-9819
3M Scotch Just for Kids Video Tape 2-12 $3.99 800-416-4061
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