Unless you live in a very dark cave there is no way to escape the onrushing cataclysm that is the quadrennial presidential election. No matter which side you favor this game will surely serve to ramp up the interest and intrigue playing out on our newspapers and televisions from now until November. Ingeniously designed The […]
Katatu is a game that might miss your radar either because of the unusual name or the box art which doesn’t do justice to the superb the game inside. Combining principals of checkers and tic tac toe, Katatu should be on your board game shopping list as it engages players of all ages, requiring them
Have you ever wished that your infant could hold their own bottle when sitting in the car seat or riding in the stroller? The people at Original Baby did and created a unique holder for little fingers. This is a manipulative tool that holds the bottle and features soft rubber with lots of little notches
A slam-dunk, grand-slam, winner. For tweens and early teens this was a rather surprising runaway hit. We say surprising because we have never seen anything even close to it, which only means that lots of people missed an amazing opportunity. Girls can now “move into” their home away from home on the first day of
If you have a High School student in your home and you are looking to help, enhance or expand their skills when it comes to achieving in school, this might be your one stop shop. Parents certainly felt this was one of the most well thought out, well laid out and well researched programs they
The concept and design of this thermometer really resonated with mothers. The combination of nurturing and accurate temperature taking just felt right. The device sits right on your finger so that you can unobtrusively check what kind of fever, if any, your child has. The directions are delightfully simple and leave no questions unanswered. The
Packaged in a very small round tin parents admitted that their first thought was, this’ll be great for travel. There is no doubt about its portability but it is what is inside that made this new Blue Orange game a winner. There are 60 picture cards to choose from, each borrowing from familiar fairy tales,
Back with another great game in a round tin, Blue Orange has released one more title in their series of superb games of concentration, visual acuity and group play. This is a wonderful game to play together with your child or to watch them play with same aged children. The object is to spot the
We all know and have played Monopoly numerous times but the fact is that there is a bit of a love-hate many of us have with the timeless classic. The biggest hurdle being the length of the game. Perhaps when it was first introduced we had more time for games of this length but the
Without a doubt this is the coolest looking Play-Doh toy/machine anyone has ever laid eyes on. But the coolness doesn’t stop there, it is so much fun to play with, which is really the point anyway, right? Drop the Play-Doh in the top of the machine, crank the handle and make perfectly round “gumballs”. You
