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Mrs. Pinkelmeyer Plush Singing Doll Won Dr. Toy Award for Best Vacation ...

Mrs. Pinkelmeyer Plush, Singing Doll has won the coveted Dr. Toy award. Dr. Toy’s Best Vacation Children’s Products Awards were developed by noted child development authority, Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Dr. Toy), as a service to consumers who desire to purchase safe, affordable, educationally-oriented, and stimulating toys and play products for children for vacation time at home or on the road.

“As a childhood specialist for 40 years,” says Dr. Toy, “I have seen the continuous, essential need for more year-round resources for consumers to identify and choose the most appropriate products for all children.”

Dr. Toy reports that in the years the innovative on-line magazine, Dr. Toy’s Guide, has been available, “thousands of visitors daily from around the world have accessed its information.” It was the first web site to evaluate toys and children’s products. The report is being released, according to Dr. Toy, to “encourage parents and teachers to focus on the value of play during the summer as essential to the overall learning process.”

Dr. Toy’s Best Vacation Children’s Products are carefully chosen, using extensive criteria she has developed over many years, from among hundreds she has reviewed at toy fairs, in catalogs, and through many other sources. The criteria she uses includes: safety, age-appropriateness, design, durability, lasting play value, cultural and ethnic diversity, good transition from home to school, educational value, learning skills, creativity, improvement in the understanding of the community and the world, good value for price, and, naturally, fun.

“It is such a great honor to be given this award by Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D, a true leader and innovator in the toy industry, says Jennifer Kelman creator of the indelible Mrs. Pinkelmeyer.

Dr. Auerbach, a long-time resident of San Francisco, originally from New York City, lived in Washington, DC, while working for the Department of Education where she approved the first proposal for “Sesame Street” and established the first day care center for children of federal employees. In San Francisco, she established the San Francisco International Toy Museum, the world’s first “hands-on” toy museum visited by over 50,000 children. She is the author of 15 books (including The Toy Chest, Toys for a Lifetime, The Whole Child, and Choosing Child Care) and hundreds of articles on toys and play, and is the only Ph.D. in Child Development evaluating toys and children’s products with extensive training, background, and over 40 years of experience evaluating, writing and speaking about toys and children’s products. Dr. Auerbach is trained in child development, education, child psychology and special education. She is an educator, consultant, parent, and playful grandparent.

China toy export industry is facing tremendous pressure where to ...

The second half of last year to the present, China's toy industry experienced a product recall incident, U.S. subprime mortgage crisis (focus on U.S. financial whirlpool) and the global financial turmoil, China's toy exports actually facing enormous pressure, at present, China's toy export enterprises operating in a difficult . Import and Export Fair Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce Director Guo Oct. 25 interview in Guangzhou proposed toy industry can and animation industry, creative industries linked to the greater development. The official recommendations, toy companies feel it is "easier." car diagnostics tools China car repairing tools Despite the November 1 toy export tax rebate rate from about 3 percentage points, Through the 104th Canton Fair toy hall can still clearly feel the existence of Chinese toy enterprises difficult atmosphere. Guangzhou Textiles Holdings Limited Sporting Goods Department of Ho told reporters, "The state has raised the export tax rebate rate though, the global economic downturn, our orders have decreased, so the export tax rebate rate increase, the real significance of our not large. " car diagnostics tools Manufacturer Statistics show that, due to intense market competition, China's toy export enterprises to increase the cost of hard to pass downstream. Guo, for example, this year, the toy cost increase of about 60%, while orders for the price rises only 10%; number of export enterprises or for the purpose of stabilizing the market, orders for large customers no change in the basic price. Guo in Chinese toy industry had failed to grasp the opportunities of Sino-US cultural exchange of considerable regret. He told reporters: "90's of last century, Sino-US cultural exchanges, when the U.S. exchange to China," Transformers "animated series such. The Chinese exchange to the United States," Jiu Selu "," three boys "and other animation video. Since then, the Transformers popularity in the Chinese children in order to produce the cartoon-based toys is sweeping the river north and south. And because China's exchange to the U.S. cartoon no continuity, no related product development consciousness, lost a rare opportunity. " However, the Zibo joint plush toys for Guo, General Manager Mr. Sun poured cold water on the proposal: "China can not afford to do Disney model toys. Disney toy is able to sell so well, can sell such a high prices because these products contain a cultural element, they have not simply toys.

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