This week’s roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features children’s picture books, interactive toys, sensory products + more! Be sure to scroll through the entire list so you don’t miss any of our new award-winners! All the items you see below won a Mom’s Choice Award during March 26, 2023 to April 1, 2023.

Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.

WOMHOM 120 Inch Extra Wide Retractable Baby Gate

[120″ Extra Wide & Retractable Design] WOMHOM Extra wide retractable baby gates can be extended up to 120 inches wide and 35 inches tall. Mesh can be completely retracted away when not in use.
[Suitable for Wall with Baseboards] The bottom mounting accessories can be adjusted up and down. You can adjust the mounting accessories according to the height of your baseboards.
[One-Handed Operation] Convenient to use when you’re holding baby or carrying toys, diapers, around. Easy to open for adults, but difficult for babies and pets.
[Suitable for Babies and Pets] the extra wide dog gates Works as both an baby gate and a pet gate to providing a safe environment to play.
[Perfect Fit Indoor and Outdoor] retractable dog gate can be installed at bottom of stairways, doorways, hallways, deck, porch, patio indoor and outdoor.

Gear & Accessories:
Safety

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Winged Top

Fastener-free top in snuggly soft fabric. No snaps, no zippers.

This patent pending, no over-the-head design makes dressing baby easier than ever. Simply wrap the winged fabric across baby, inserting arms through corresponding sleeves, and voila! Baby is dressed. No frustrating snaps or buttons to match up. No finessing fabric over baby’s head or helmet.

NICU inspired. Helpful for babies recovering from cleft lip surgery, open heart surgery. Also for babies wearing a cranial helmet or simply for a fussy baby with a precious large head.

It’s also reversible for a 2-in-1 design!

Gear & Accessories:
Clothing

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Where’s My Joey?: An Heartwarming Bedtime Story for Children of All Ages
Written by Wendy Monica Winter; Illustrated by Yulia Popova

NEW ENHANCED VERSION. This award-winning book now contains extra pages with interesting details about Joey’s Australian Pals.

Mamma Kangaroo cannot find her Joey! Will she find her baby kangaroo before dinner gets cold? Who will help Mamma Kangaroo in Australia? Does Koala, Emu or Kookaburra know where Joey is? Journey with her through Australia landscapes like the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Victoria Desert on her quest to find her precious little one.

Who will help Mother Kangaroo in Canada? Do Moose or Bear or Beaver have any clues? Read and find out!

Written by a Canadian teacher who lived in Australia, this book is entertaining, engaging, and educational on many levels. (It even has a secret spiritual message for those who want to discover it.) Filled with beautiful illustrations and a meaningful story, this is a book all ages will enjoy.

Children’s Picture Books:
Values & Life Lessons

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VTech® Switch & Go® Hatch & Roaaar Eggs

Create an egg-cellent dino world with the Switch & Go® Hatch & Roaaar Egg Velociraptor Racer™, Switch & Go® Hatch & Roaaar Egg T-Rex Racer™, Switch & Go® Hatch & Roaaar Egg Triceratops Race Car™ and Switch & Go® Hatch & Roaaar Egg Pterodactyl Chopper™! Open the eggs and find all the pieces you need to build your 2-in-1 dinosaur vehicles. Zip your speedy racers around with roaring engine sounds and the voice of the drivers. Then easily transform it into a ferocious dinosaur! Add fearsome dinosaur screeches with the push of a button to rev up imaginative play. Create a Switch & Go® world, then race or challenge other Hatch & Roaaar Egg creatures (each sold separately).

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Preschoolers

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VTech® Kiddie Cat Cassette Player™

Turn back the clock and turn up the tunes with this retro musical toy, the Kiddie Cat Cassette Player™. Bop to the music along with this head-bobbin’ kitty to jazz, country and rock-n-roll style melodies and the Alphabet Song. This take-along music toy may remind you of a small, iconic portable tape deck, but this lil’ player doesn’t need cassettes to play music. The wheels do spin, which babies and toddlers will love to watch. As they press the buttons, kiddos can learn how their actions make the kitty bop up and down and side to side. Chill out with some musical moves and totally tubular tunes!

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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VTech® Bear’s Dress & Discover Book™

Guide your toddler away from wearing shorts in the snow with the Bear’s Dress & Discover Book™. This interactive book helps your little one understand what to wear for sunny, snowy and rainy weather. See Bear in three weather scenes—with the right clothes for the weather! Three chunky tabs make it easy for your little one to turn the pages. Here is Bear on a snowy day, wearing everything needed to stay warm. A sunny day at the beach is the right weather for Bear to wear shorts and a T-shirt. Next, find Bear on a rainy day, happily wearing a raincoat and boots. The bear button encourages little hands to press and explore with 50 songs, melodies and phrases about weather and clothing.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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VTech® 3-in-1 Tummy Time to Toddler Piano™

Take on tummy time with confidence with the 3-in-1 Tummy Time to Toddler Piano™! Help keep babies entertained and engaged while they work on building their tummy and neck muscles. As babies transition to learning to sit up, they can explore this little piano even more, pressing the keys and turning the page in the little book. Hear songs, melodies and first words about colors and animals. Flip the page and peer in the mirror. Babies love to see their own smiling faces! As babies turn into walkers, they can grab hold of the handle and take this piano with them everywhere they toddle. Let’s go!

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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The Smell of Spring: A blind girl experiences the season through her nose.
Written by Mary Ann Hake; Illustrated by Marina

A fresh sensation fills the air. What is this strange new smell out there?

Join April, a blind girl, in this charming rhyming picture book as she discovers the wonderful—and not-so-wonderful—smells of spring and answers questions like, “Does rain really have a smell?”
The Smell of Spring shows children how we experience the world around us through the sense of smell. Kids will enjoy her many interesting pets and experiences and have fun with the activities at the end using the sense of smell.

Children’s Picture Books:
Nature & Weather

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Team Digger

Play cooperatively in Team Digger to learn sequencing, spatial reasoning, and early coding skills – no screen required! Each player creates a five-card sequence to move their dog from one dig site to another. Players win as a team when they find all four bones buried in the park before they dig up five unwanted objects, like an old shoe. Team Digger can be played by 2-4 players ages 6 and up in 30 minutes or less.

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Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, the Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle
Written by Steven Joseph; Illustrated by Andy Case; Edited by Deb Lucas

In the Award Winning Book “Snoodles, Kidoodles, Poodles, and Lots and Lots of Noodles,: Steven Joseph and Andy Case introduced us to a world where everyone was happy because of one man, Herbie Snoodleman, the inventor of the SnoodleMobile, which was powered solely by noodles. It had replaced the Krautmobile, invented by Sour Croodleman, which ran on sauerkraut, and made everyone quite a bit cranky.

In this follow up book, when the Zoodle Kidoodles abduct Norman Noodle and Sally Stroodle, the Zoodle Kidoodles threaten to leaver Earth completely Noodleless.

Sour Croodleman’s Prickly Peppered Purple Propulsion Powered Pickle can save the day, but will he unite with his arch nemesis, Herbie Snoodleman to save the planet?

The answer is her in this Wackadoodle Tale from Outer Space!

Children’s Picture Books:
Adventure, Adventurers & Heroes

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Sensorial Reef

Stimulating the senses is beneficial and fun for babies, who wil have a great time touching, biting, looking at and listening to this soft coral reef while it promotes their development. They will love exploring its secrets and shaking its removable baby octopus rattle. The ultimate play center for the baby’s first few years!

About Miniland: At Miniland, Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) is at the forefront of everything we do. We aim to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by making every child feel included, represented and respected.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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Say & See ABC

Say&See ABC is a learn-through-play kit that is aimed to acquire and practice early literacy skills: from naming daily objects to reading and writing CVC words. On top of that, it develops various motor, sensory and cognitive skills.

The central goal is to establish letter-sound recognition and to use this skill to acquire further literacy skills.

What do you see? Say it out loud!
Match with three more that start with this sound.
Got four of each? Put them together!
Look at the letter appears in the center

Educational Products:
Preschoolers

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LeapFrog® Fruit Colors Learning Smoothie™

Take a smoothie break while your little one explores the Fruit Colors Learning Smoothie™! Learning is delicious with this cute, colorful cup. Swivel the straw to choose from five fruit flavors, and the cup will change color to match—this smoothie is bananas! Meet Crystal the Cup plus five funny fruits like Sherry Strawberry and Oliver Orange who introduce themselves and their colors. The straw is also a teething toy for kids to nibble as they listen to fruit-themed sing-along songs and music in reggae, pop, punk rock and country styles. Shake up the toy smoothie cup to hear the bubble beads bounce.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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KISKIZ 110 Inch Extra Wide Retractable Baby Gate

[110 Inch Extra Wide Baby Gate] KISKIZ baby gate fits large openings 110 inches wide and 35 inches tall, and can be adjusted to fit your opening.
[Retractable Design – Saving Space] The retractable baby gate is easy to use in high traffic areas, and the mesh gate can be completely retracted when not in use without taking up a large space.
[One-Handed Operation] Designed with safety locking function, even the extra long baby gate can easily open and close the gate with one hand while holding the baby.
[Fits Any Baseboard] This child gate has an adjustable lower bracket that fits any baseboard without wall spacers, making it safer, more practical and easier to install.
[Perfect for Indoor and Outdoor] Each set contains 1 extra wide retractable gate and required mounting accessories. Retractable dog gate can be used for doorways, stairs and hallways both indoors and outdoors.

Gear & Accessories:
Safety

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HeyBetter Children’s Sun-proof Cap

IT’s a Children’s Sun-proof Cap with extra light weight (only 60grams).Made of special fabric, this hat fits well when children wearing it and will not fall out when children doing sports. And it’s washable and foldable, making it’s easy to store and clean.

Monthly sales of 3w+, best seller of Children’s Hats on biggest shopping websites in China.
[Top Seller of Children’s Hats on Tmall(Tmall is China’s biggest online shopping website] [Douyin Children’s Hat Bestseller – No. 1]

Other hats on market: when the children wear other hat is , or easy to run and jump down, take out is not good storage bag can not be put, some hats are also very heavy children wearing a burden, pressure the head blood circulation

Gear & Accessories:
Sports / Outdoor

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Char-Broil Grill for Kids

The Char-Broil kids BBQ set is super barbe-cute and perfect for children ages 3 and up. This set comes with everything your kid needs to throw the best bbq, the grill, which lets out steam like a real bbq, tongs, a spatula, and the classic foods you expect to see at bbqs, hotdogs, hamburgers, steak, kebabs and corn (only one of each included).

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers

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Caucasian Girl Doll with Hearing Implant

This Baby Doll Caucasian Girl with Hearing Aid is anatomically correct and comes with underwear. Miniland dolls promote inclusive values as well as empathy and acceptance of people no matter what their race, sex or condition may be.

About Miniland: At Miniland, Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) is at the forefront of everything we do. We aim to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by making every child feel included, represented and respected.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Preschoolers

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Bottle Buddies

A gripping baby is a happy baby. Keep your baby busy feeding with this stretchable band that incorporates plush animal toys onto the bottle for your baby to explore, exercise their grip and play. Complete with Baby Bottle Band, two attachable Elephant plush and two attachable handles. This starter kit is the perfect gift for expecting and new mothers.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Babies

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