GeoPuzzles Win NAPPA Toy Award Will Be Featured in Parent Magazines Nationwide

The GeoPuzzles, geography jigsaw puzzles with pieces shaped like countries, have received a 2006 Honors Toy award from the National Association of Parenting Publications (NAPPA). This comes on top of a recent Dr. Toy "Smart Play" Award.

Neenah, WI (PRWEB) September 12, 2006 -- GeoToys, LLC is pleased to announce that its line of geography jigsaw puzzles, the GeoPuzzles, has received a 2006 Honors Toy award from the National Association of Parenting Publications (NAPPA).

GeoPuzzles are jigsaw puzzles of the major continents with pieces shaped like countries so children learn as they put the puzzles together. The GeoPuzzles help to build fine motor, cognitive, language, and problem-solving skills, and are a great introduction to world geography for children 4 and up.

Making Geography Fun
“We're very pleased with this latest award from NAPPA,” says GeoToys founder Bob Galinsky. “It means we're succeeding in our goal of making geography fun and teaching young kids about the world.”
Designed by an art professor, jumbo sized and brightly colored GeoPuzzles are available for all 5 major continents.

In addition, GeoPuzzle Parent/Teacher Resource Guides are available for free on the GeoToys website (www.geotoystore.com).

For all these reasons, the GeoPuzzles received a 2006 Dr. Toy "Smart Toy Award", in addition to this latest NAPPA honor.

Geography experts have also praised the GeoPuzzles. Matt Rosenberg, author of “The Handy Geography Answer Book” and resident expert at geography.about.com, gives the GeoPuzzles a four-star rating, while Geography World’s Brad Bowerman calls the GeoPuzzles “a great introduction to world geography.”

GeoPuzzles Will be Widely Publicized
NAPPA editorial partners publicize the names of NAPPA winners during the holiday season, and direct their 3.5 million readers to parenthood.com, where all winners, including the GeoPuzzles, are featured.

NAPPA's editorial partners include the following publications: * Boston Parents Paper * Bay Area Parent (San Francisco) * Central California Parent * Central Pennsylvania Parent * Maryland Family * Metro Parent (Detroit) * Metro Parent (Milwaukee) * Our Kids San Antonio * Charlotte Parent (North Carolina) * Piedmont Parent (North Carolina) * Albemarle Family (Virginia) * Metro Augusta Family * North Florida Families * Carolina Parent (North Carolina) * Tidewater Parent (Virginia) * Low Country Parent (Charleston, SC) * Child Guide (Maryland) * Colorado Parent * Country Kids (New Jersey) * Genesee Valley Parent (New York) * Kansas City Parent * Parenting New Hampshire * Parents Monthly (Sacramento) * Parent Paper (New Jersey) * South Florida Parenting * Kids Vermont * L.A. Parent * Washington Families (Wash DC and suburbs) * Westchester Families (New York) * Western New York Family (Buffalo)

About GeoToys

Founded by Bob Galinsky in 2004, GeoToys, LLC is based in Neenah, Wisconsin and is committed to providing high-quality, affordable and fun geographical toys for children of all ages. GeoToys donates a portion of its profits to geography education programs in order to promote “world piece”.

GeoPuzzles of Europe, Asia, and Africa are currently available, with U.S./Canada and Latin America puzzles due in October.

GeoToys sales reps: http://www.geotoystore.com/reps.html
About NAPPA

The National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) is the nation’s most comprehensive awards programs for evaluating children’s and parenting products. This year, NAPPA celebrates its 16th year. Founded by L.A. Parent magazine in 1990, the Children’s Resources division of NAPPA was designed as a service to parents by filtering myriad choices of children’s books, toys, music, DVDs, software and story recordings to select the very best products for children from birth to age 12.

NAPPA's toy judges look for innovation, educational value and the ability to “grow” with a child’s developmental interests and needs.

NAPPA award winners are published in a number of parenting publications during the holidays season, as well as on parenthood.com.

Website: http://www.parenthood.com

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