PAL Award Winners – 2015
Exceptional toys, games and books / media that encourage language, spark fun and invite creative play.
PAL Awards
Established by respected speech and language expert Sherry Artemenko, the PAL Award recognizes exceptional toys, games and books that, through their design, content, quality, and character, promote play that advances language. PAL winners in the hands of kids spark fun and creative play with lots of talk!
TOYS
GAMES
BOOKS / MEDIA
TOYS
Fairytale Theater by Build and Imagine
Take storytelling to a new level with Build and Imagine's newest themed set, Fairytale Theater. The double-sided magnetic story panels inspired a...
Little House on the Prairie 18″ Doll Covered Wagon, Furniture for 18″ Girl Dolls by The Queens’ Treasures
Pack up for your pioneer adventure as your dolls board the wagon in this 52" long Prairie Covered Wagon. Little girls threaded the reigns through...
Crayola Easy Animation Studio
Want to give your kids a creative experience they can accomplish independently? Bring out Crayola's Easy Animation Studio. Color a character from...
Kids First Automobile Engineer by Thames and Kosmos
Little future engineers on-the-go loved this construction set geared to building interest and skill in STEM basics. Kids quickly snapped open the...
Disney Imagicademy Storymation Studio by Wonder Forge
Junior producers and directors get ready to set up your animation studio and start filming! Snap open your plastic case for all the essentials for...
Jungle Fun Activity Cart by Alex Toys
Toddlers love to exert their independence by pushing an exciting toy around the room, so just watch them show off their mini jungle of fun. Three...
Ready, Set, Shapes! by Alex Toys
Stamps, shapes, stickers and little preschoolers' hands are a perfect mix for fun learning. My little friend chose the farm and forest backgrounds...
Gigantic Step and Play Piano by Alex Toys
Talk about active play, when kids first saw the Step and Play Piano they knelt down to slide the "on" button and were surprised to be playing their...
Crayola Crayon Carver
Kids were fascinated with the Crayon Carver and kept calling out, "I'm next," as they waited their turn to personalize a crayon. Children guide the...
GAMES
Space Hawk by Ravensburger
Ravensburger’s new Space Hawk augmented reality toy and game is re-entering the earth's atmosphere and headed to North America. This creative...
Sesame Street Alphabet Kitchen app Interacting with Tiggly Words
Preschoolers have always delighted in watching their silly friend, Cookie Monster, gobble up cookies and crumbs. Now Sesame Street has partnered...
Puzzlets by Digital Dream Labs
Puzzlets by Digital Dream Labs is a welcome new addition to the vast array of digital kids games which also promise redeeming educational value. In...
Ideal Who Lives Where? by Alex Brands
There's something fun and a little retro about playing an all wooden game with little friends. We set out our 10 houses with animals shapes cut out,...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Star Destroyer Strike Game by Wonder Forge
Get ready for a fast-paced strategy game that requires quick thinking and cooperation to escape to safety with one of your Resistance heroes...
Rally Up! by Blue Orange Games
Rally the kids around this fast thinking game as players flip over one of 110 exotically illustrated cards and scan for images that belong to the...
Rory’s Story Cubes: Moomins by The Creativity Hub Ltd.
Kids opened Rory's Story Cubes’ compact carrying case and couldn’t wait to roll the icon dice and start their story of Moomintroll’s next adventure....
Rory’s Story Cubes: Batman by The Creativity Hub Ltd.
Get ready Batman fans, "Once upon a crime..." has never been so much fun than with Rory's Story Cubes. My friends needed no instructions as they...
Pictopia: Star Wars Edition by Wonderforge
Star Wars fans will love Pictopia's newest edition, challenging them with 1000 questions ranging from trivia tests related to helmets, devices used...
BOOKS / MEDIA
The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish by Diesen and Hanna
I just love the opening stanzas of Mr. Fish's latest escapade: "In a festive ocean corner, Fish were decking out the reef, Hanging tinsell, bows and...
Ally-saurus and the First Day of School by Richard Torrey
This book has been a favorite with my speech therapy students since I found it in the "New" books section. Ally-saurus is a little girl with a...
Max’s Math by Kate Banks
In Kate Banks’ newest book, “Max’s Math,” Max has set out to find problems, just for the fun of it. Building his car, he is 2 wheels short but found...
The Cowboy by Muller
Kids love this book as do I. This “I Like to Read” book should be in your little one’s early reader library. The compelling story of rescue and...
Disney Imagicademy Mickey Mouse Animals Activity Book by Wonder Forge
Explore the world of animals with this interactive book jammed with learning fun, exploring and comparing animals according to size, diet, habitat,...
Mochu Says Goodnight by Kadho Inc.
Kids loved this tender goodnight story as Mochu, the penguin, lies in bed with eyes wide open, trying to get to sleep. I chose to listen to the...
Tangram Tales by MindWare
Three Tangram Tales, combine a color connected story with associated tangrams to build, that complement the text on each page. "Yellow Wonders"...
Sweet Dreams, Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna
Lucky babies and toddlers can add another Pout-Pout Fish book to their library. The newest "Sweet Dreams" follows the bedtime routine with a...
Two Speckled Eggs by Jennifer K. Mann
This is a gem of a book as it inspires so much discussion on many levels as you read it to a child. Author and illustrator Jennifer Mann captures...
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