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ADVISORY/Public Picks Learning Product as Best Toy of the Year.


Business Editors; Entertainment & Education Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday Monday: see week.  (Feb. 12)

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The first annual Toy of the Year Awards program (T.O.T.Y.), established by the Toy Manufacturers of America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. , presented educational company, LeapFrog(R), with two of the industry's top honors for its LeapPad(TM) Learning System, the number one selling product in the nation during December December: see month.  20001.

LeapPad won People's Choice Toy of the Year and Best Educational Toy An educational toy is a toy designed to teach people, typically children, about a certain subject or help them learn a skill as they play.

Examples include:
  • Building toys, such as toy blocks.
 of the Year, making it the first-ever recipient of these awards, which have been referred to as the "Oscars" of the toy industry.

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