Custom Made For Kids
Check out the Custom Made For Kids website! It offers an award-winning personalized children’s book that makes a perfect keepsake baby gift, birthday gift or holiday gift for newborns and young children. The charming, rhyming text and the rich, full-color illustrations in this keepsake hardcover book, The First Adventures of Incredible You, will surely delight you and the special child in your life. The customized book follows the gift recipient from the incredible day the child arrived on earth through many exciting adventures the child is sure to experience in his or her first few years of life.
Read It: www.custommadeforkids.com
Madallie
Turn your kids into happy, patient travelers with Madallie.com, a children’s online travel store. We’ve hunted down the most amazing books, wild games, cool backpacks, dreamy pillows, hip travel cases, comfort dolls, groovy puppets and more to keep your kids occupied, and keep you sane, whenever you’re on the road. even if it is only to soccer practice. Travel with us through our website at Madallie.com, it’s not the destination… it’s the journey!
Shop It: www.madallie.com
Alex Toys
Alex’s mission is to provide children with quality creative products that foster personal expression and build self-esteem. The best children’s activities provide lots of fun and they open a child’s mind to new skills, new ideas and new worlds. Alex is a lifestyle. Alex helps start children on a lifetime of learning and discovery. It all begins with a brushstroke…it all begins with Alex!
Check It: www.alextoys.us
The Original Freddy
Freddy features handcrafted chairs and rockers for kids of all ages as well as books and other accessories. No matter how Freddy joins your family, we know you’ll find him especially comfortable and cozy for the child lucky enough to have The Original Freddy as their own special friend.
Check It: www.freddyrocks.com
Perennial
You’ll feel good about buying Perennial products, because we put a great deal of thought and care into how we make or choose each one. Each of our bath toys are designed by Navajo artist Daryl Tom. And our featured books are written and/or illustrated by Native Americans.
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Fliptomania
Fliptomania artists create some of the most unusual, sophisticated flipbooks ever made. We use an array of elements and styles - hand-drawn animation, 3-D animation, film, photography and cultural icons. We create original film footage and use classic footage, too. Most importantly, we combine it all with our unique artistic sensibility.
Check It: www.fliptomania.com
Encyclopedia Prehistorica
via The CoolHunter… Do you remember pop-up books? Those cumbersome hardbacks filled with leaping tigers, squawking birds and various other fantastical images? Well, Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart have taken it upon themselves to transform this childish novelty into something close to art. Their trilogy of pop-up books, known as ‘Encylopedia Prehistorica’, can easily claim to be among some of the most sophisticated books ever made. Ornate depictions of sharks and dinosaurs are painstakingly constructed from scratch to create and mimic the movements of the animals in their natural habitats. Available at Walker Books.
Check It: www.thecoolhunter.net
CandyKiller 2
A little late on this but CandyKiller 2 is out as well as the CandyKiller Compendium. CandyKiller is a collection of illustrations, design ideas, and assorted visual ramblings. Inspired by : b-movies, bazooka joe, cheap novelties, cult sci-fi television, early mad comic books, famous monsters of filmland, fireworks packaging, freakshows, horror comics and more. Buy the books at LuLu.
Check It: www.candykiller.com
Faery Folk
Each Faery Folk doll and storybook is elegantly displayed in bright and sophisticated colors intended to stand out on the retailers shelf. Each package comes with a storybook, doll & links to an entertainment / educational website. Available at Amazon.com.
Check It: www.dervishtoys.com
Michel Gagne
Explore the mischievous books and wonderfully freakish illustrations created by comic book author and animator Michel Gagne.
Check It: www.gagneint.com
Nursery Rhyme Tease
Nursery Rhyme Books and Matching T-Shirts with Classics like Old Mac Donald, Hey Diddle Diddle, Humpty Dumpty, Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Cow Jumped Over the Moon.
Shop It: www.nurseryrhymetease.com
Camp Creepy Time
Camp Creepy Time is a children’s book written by actress Gina Gershon and her brother, Dann Gershon. The book is about a stranded young boy who discovers an alien-run smuggling operation overseen by the counselors who are turning his fellow campers into monsters. The corresponding website features fun ecards, video campfire stories and more.
Read It: www.campcreepytime.com
Ruby Gloom
In a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Gloomsville lives Ruby Gloom and her off beat circle of friends. Some kids might be afraid of the dark, the eccentric neighbors and the unknown things that dwell in the closet, but Ruby is different! She befriends these strange and sometimes scary creatures.
Check It: Official Site | Books
Handstand Kids
Handstand Kids books are the perfect recipe for kids to learn how to cook, while discovering the people, places, and language of a new country. The first Handstand Kids book journeys to Italy to make delicious and nutritious Italian recipes. Each illustrated book comes with an authentic chef’s hat to make us all Handstand Kids chefs.
Read It: www.handstandkids.com
