Best in Kids Gifts: Grandkids Gift Guide Announces Holiday 2008 Superproduct Awards
GrandkidsGiftGuide. com, the leading website reviewing kids products with intergenerational value, announces its Holiday 2008 Superproduct Awards. This season the award is being presented to 15 manufacturers with exceptional products that make great kids gifts.
Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) November 12, 2008
Grandkids Gift Guide, the leading website reviewing kids products with intergenerational value, announces the recipients of its Holiday 2008 Superproduct Award. This award is presented to companies with products that have received the Grandkids Gift Guide editorial team's highest honors -- in terms of quality, and appeal to those who are both giving and receiving kids gifts. Below are descriptions of five of this season's fifteen award recipients. To read about all of the Superproduct Award winners, please visit Grandkids Gift Guide at http://www. grandkidsgiftguide. com (http://www. grandkidsgiftguide. com).
CARES Kids Fly Safe Airline Safety Harness was invented by a grandmother who wanted to make air travel safer for young children. Louise Stall's entrepreneurial journey ultimately led to a patent and partnership with AmSafe, manufacturer of most of today's airline seatbelts. After four years of development and safety testing, the FAA certified the CARES system as the first and only alternative to car seats allowed on planes. Unlike car seats, it weighs only one pound and fits in a carry-on bag. CARES is a great gift for grandparents to give to parents for their littlest grandchildren -- and if they don't live close by, it's an incentive for them to hop on a plane to come visit! Read Best in Kids Gifts Superproduct Review (http://grandkidsgiftguide. com/age/1-3-years-old/grandmother-invented-cares-kids-fly-safe-airline-child-safety-harness-is-lightweight-and-faa-approved/) of CARES - Kids Fly Safe.
Family Talk and Grandparent Talk, by Around the Table Games, are card decks with questions that spark conversations among family members and peers. The games include 100 question cards clipped together and small enough to bring anywhere where it's enjoyable to pass time or become lost in memorable conversation. Grandparent Talk is designed to help deepen intergenerational relationships among family members and keep family history alive. Questions range from: Did you have your own bedroom growing up? and Who was your favorite teacher and why? to Are you afraid of anything? and What do you think about kids today? Read Best in Kids Gifts Superproduct Review (http://grandkidsgiftguide. com/age/5-7-years-old/conversation-starters-for-all-ages-family-talk-grandparent-talk-card-deck-games/)
Peg Loom Weaving Kit for Beginners, by Harrisville Designs, is a child-friendly fiber arts kit. It includes a handheld hardwood loom with pegs to hold yarn in place, as well as a plastic needle, cotton warp string, and enough yarn to complete a project. Harrisville Designs is helping to preserve the textile heritage of its town, Harrisville, NH, where yarn has been spun since 1794. In an age where most children's toy and product manufacturers struggle to design something new, these weaving kits are helping to keep an ancient art current, making it available to an appreciative new generation. Read Best in Kids Gifts Superproduct Review (http://grandkidsgiftguide. com/age/5-7-years-old/child-friendly-peg-loom-weaving-kit-by-harrisville-designs/) of Harrisville Designs' Peg Loom Weaving Kit.
Three Cups, a new children's book by Mark St. Germain, retells the story of the three 'old coffee cups' a boy received from his parents for his fifth birthday… a present, his parents explained, that would 'take him on many adventures.' The boy's initial disappointment eventually leads to excitement over the meaning behind the three cups - one for saving, one for spending, and one to use towards a charity of his choice. The lessons in this beautifully illustrated book are simple and classic, and do not read as preachy. Instead, they make up an engaging story that will encourage children and families to easily put the principles into practice. Read Best in Kids Gifts Superproduct Review (http://grandkidsgiftguide. com/age/5-7-years-old/three-cheers-for-three-cups-a-childrens-book-about-saving-spending-being-charitable/) of Three Cups.
Top This! is a new mind-challenging game by Thinkfun, and like most of Thinkfun's brain teaser products, is just as appealing to parents and grandparents as it is to children. Developed for ages 8 and up, the object is to create the same overall shape using orange pieces of varying shapes stacked on top of blue pieces of varying shapes, or vice versa. Top This! borrows some basic concepts from classic tangrams, yet it has a complex personality all its own. 40 game cards ranging from beginner, to intermediate, to advanced and expert levels (serious head-scratching), show you the pieces of each color that you will need to complete each puzzle. Family members spanning the generations can tackle the puzzles on their own or help each other out! Read Best in Kids Gifts Superproduct Review (http://grandkidsgiftguide. com/age/8-11-years-old/hard-to-top-thinkfuns-top-this-brain-teaser-game-is-shape-pattern-matching-spacial-fun/)
"We're thrilled to honor companies with outstanding kids products, especially those that bring the generations together," says Deb Gold, founder and editor of Grandkids Gift Guide. "We evaluate hundreds of products each year, and share the best of them with grandparents and parents around the world. Each of this season's winners has provided us with products that have outstanding educational, entertainment, and intergenerational value."
For additional information about all of the Holiday 2008 Superproduct winners, visit Grandkids Gift Guide at http://www. grandkidsgiftguide. com (http://www. grandkidsgiftguide. com).
About Grandkids Gift Guide - Deb Gold founded Grandkids Gift Guide in 2007 to enhance connections between grandparents and grandchildren, and to simplify the search for quality kids gifts. A labor of love, Grandkidsgiftguide. com is a present in itself to grandparents, to help them find 'that special something' for their grandchildren.
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