Most popular brands by Mattel

Mattel - http://www.mattel.com/

Mattel is one of largest Toy Company.It has the most popular product brands like Fisher Price, Barbie, Hotwheels, Match Box, Disney Movie To. These brands are very much in demand and most popular. 

Fisher Price - http://www.fisher-price.com

 Fisher Price toys is what fun learning is all about for kids, in their formative building years.They have wonderful brands like ...

      

and Ocean Wonders, Brilliant Basics and so on...

We started our collection with a lot of Fisher Price toys and have constantly kept adding the new ones. They have always been our favourites. 

Need we say any more about these popular brands like Barbie, Hotwheels, Disney toys from movies, from mattel ... Thats what our lil members keep asking for :)

  

At Toyshare the largest range of toys is from mattel.

Some Eco friendly Wooden Toy Brands

We love the additions very different & innovative wooden toys and puzzles from some international brands.  

Melissa & Doug - http://www.melissaanddoug.com/

Melissa & Doug is American company , mainly known for their wooden puzzles and similar type of educational toys. We particularly like the sound puzzles -"Alphabet Sound Puzzle" and "Shape Sound Puzzle"


Hape - http://www.hapetoys.com/
 Hape International is a leading manufacturer of high quality wooden and environmentally friendly toys. We like their creative designs, especially ones for motor skills like Hape Fun Farm and Hape Rapido
Hape range at Toyshare

Plan Toys - http://plantoys.com/home/


PlanToys is known to manufacture wooden toys from preservative-free rubberwood.Their products are marketed as "green", using natural materials, water-based paints, and strict quality and safety standards . 
We like some of the innovative toys like "Animal Puzzle Set" and "Animal Mix n Match"

Know your brands- vtech

Vtech : http://www.vtechkids.com/
VTech is an award winning electronic learning toys company offering the best learning toys .Its the creator of the Electronic Learning Products (ELP) category and the award-winning age-appropriate learning products. Since 1980, VTech has been developing high-quality, innovative educational products that enrich children's development through fun and smart play.



Vtech toys are very popular in our library for their fun learning products. Many "My First" gadgets are from vtech. Our favourites are the Gym toys "Giraffe Bike" and "Step Kangaroo". All the toys have either alphabet or number songs or activities. We love them for their educational value.

Vtech range at Toyshare

Know your brands- Chicco

Chicco - http://www.chicco.com
Chicco a famous "Italian" baby care brand (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkikːo]). It specializes in making clothing and equipment for babies and toddlers including strollers, high chairs, car seats and toys too. As its tagline goes 'wherever there's a baby' it has some of the cutest toys for babies & toddlers.

We like Chicco toys are for their very high quality and some unique toys like- "Musical Nursery Toy" and "magic blocks". It gives us a lot more variety for  lil ones upto 2 years. The other chicco toys like the farm, guitar, rodeo are always on demand.


Chicco range at Toyshare

Know your Toy Brands- Leapfrog

Leap frog : http://www.leapfrog.com


Leap frog is a popular US brand speacializing in innovative, technology-based educational toys. LeapFrog’s product portfolio focuses on three main families of products; reading solutions, educational gaming and grade school products and learning toys.
They have many award winning products. 


The most popular language special toys based on phonics & alphabets, at our library are from leap frog and their leaptop is also very popular. We love their products for some very different and fun designs like the fridge phonics and magnetic farm set

Leap frog range at Toyshare

Know your Toy brands- ELC

In this blog series, you get to know more about the brands we keep at the library. 

Early Learning Centre(ELC)- http://www.elc.co.uk/

This is a very popular British Toy brand.They focus on educational and developmental toys. Early Learning Centre playtest their toys to check they can withstand the expected knocks and bumps and employ various techniques into their manufacturing process such as ultrasonic welding and use of virgin plastics. As they say it
"We push them down the stairs, throw them, jump on them, knock them over, poke fingers in them and even lick them. So we know our toys are as tough as the children that play with them."

This is one of our favourite brands, especially for pretend play. They have good quality toys with some very innovative types.  We have a range of pretend plays from ELC including kitchen, washing machine, castle, school set, farm set, baking set, pizza set, dressing Table, Keyboard & microphone and some wonderful party toys as well.
The construction toys like Castle of Courage and Cobblestone Farm sets are intruiging for us as well and have been all time favorites.

Check the entire range of  ELC at Toyshare