This week’s roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features children’s picture books, learning toys, personal use 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 31, 2024 to April 6, 2024.

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

We’re The Same, We’re Different and We All Belong: A Children’s Diversity Book For Kids 3-5, 6-8 That Teaches Kindness, Acceptance & Empathy. Differences Are Only One Part Of A Person’s Unique Story.
Written by KayJay Miller

This book will help children:
• Love and accept themselves just the way they are
• Appreciate and celebrate other people’s differences
• Build their self-confidence and self-esteem
• Nurture their tolerance, empathy and kindness

The best social emotional learning / SEL book for raising caring children
In her own heartwarming, hilarious words, Marnie, a spunky multiracial kindergartener, explores the concept of diversity. She finds that differences (e.g. race, size, accent, learning styles, ways of moving around) are only one part of a person’s unique story.

Want to guide your child… but don’t quite know how?
This book is an engaging, interactive framework for parents and teachers to introduce that crucial conversation that will transform children’s attitudes towards themselves and others.

Children’s Picture Books:
Values & Life Lessons

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SlideAscope

See how many symmetrical images you can create by sliding and rotating the tiles in SlideAscope. As tiles are matched and collected, the remaining tiles above will slide down, possibly creating more matches and earning you more points. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins! This Life & Thinking Skills game can be played by 1-5 players ages 8 and up in about 20 minutes.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 9 to 12

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Sadie Sue Say’s She’s Sorry
Written by Valerie LeMaster

This is a farm animal’s middle of the night adventure tale involving the family dog Sadie Sue and her friends, Twirl the Squirrel, Funny the Bunny, and Kitty the Cat. Despite her best intentions, things don’t play out the way Sadie Sue expects. This fun story will twist your tongue and stretch your vocabulary. You will have to read it over and over again.

Children’s Picture Books:
Bedtime Stories

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Saachi the Angel
Written by Amelie Sultana Patel and Harriet Hellen Paulk Hessam; Illustrated by Tiffany LaGrange

Saachi the Angel is a heartwarming children’s book. The story follows Amelie, an Alpaca, and her diverse animal family living harmoniously in a vibrant forest. When Amelie’s wish for a baby sister comes true in the form of Saachi Helen, an angel instead of an animal, the family initially grapples with the unexpected. However, Saachi’s angelic presence brings enchanting transformations to their world, turning her into the “child of joy.” As they embrace the changes, they learn that love transcends differences and family bonds defy expectations.

Juvenile Books (Level 1 – Ages 5 to 8):
Fiction – General

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National Geographic Motorized Marble Run

The National Geographic 95-Piece Motorized Marble Run Set is a super-fun way for kids to explore construction, engineering, and physics! Configure the pieces in any design you’d like and explore endless marble maze possibilities! The motorized lift keeps the action moving, creating a perpetual motion machine that keeps the marble action going non-stop! The pieces in this kit–including the motorized lift–are compatible with existing National Geographic Glow-in-the-Dark Marble Run kits (non-magnetic), allowing you to explore even larger runs! The detailed Learning Guide has lots of information about the physics of motion and gravity, so kids can learn while they play! And when they’re all done, a convenient storage bag is included so you can keep all the marble run pieces stored together.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 9 to 12

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National Geographic Clay Dinosaur Modeling Kit

Create awesome dinosaur models with the Clay Dinosaur Modeling Kit! This kit comes with detailed T. rex, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops skeletons. Kids will use the five fun clay colors to cover each skeleton in any way they choose. Then they can add spots, stripes, horns, googly eyes, or other fun embellishments, or use the included sculpting tool to create an endless variety of textures. This kit is all about creativity and imagination, letting kids experiment with different color combinations and clay shapes as they create their dinosaur models. Easy-to-follow instructions provide tips on how to work with the clay while a fascinating learning guide provides fun facts about dinosaurs.

Arts, Crafts & Hobbies:
Ages 5 to 8

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National Geographic Balance Stepping Stones

National Geographic Balance Stepping Stones for Kids are the perfect indoor or outdoor activity, promoting imaginative play and helping kids develop balance, motor skills, and coordination. These hard-plastic stones are durable, safe, and easy to transport and store thanks to their non-slip rubber base and rugged, stackable design. This set includes stepping stones in 6 bright colors. National Geographic Stepping Stones add an active element to play dates, birthday parties, and more, and inspire hours of active, screen-free fun! For extra fun, a spinner is included so kids can set up their stones in different configurations, then jump to the color they land on. It makes for creative play as kids develop their own rules and games

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 5 to 8

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My Safety Superhero
Written by Jo Pina

My Safety Superhero is a story that celebrates the hardworking construction workers who build things like the buildings, homes, offices, and roads we see and use every day.

Children’s Picture Books:
Adventure, Adventurers & Heroes

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MoxyPatch Bladder Leak Prevention Kit

MoxyPatch is an over the counter device designed to prevent mild to moderate unintentional leaks due to stress urinary incontinence in adult females. The MoxyPatch kit consists of 1 reusable silicone device which works along with the 25 replaceable gentle adhesive hydrogel patches. Once assembled, the MoxyPatch device is placed overtop of the urethral opening (occluding the urethra) , preventing unintentional leaks.

Personal Use Products (Skin Care, Health Care, etc.):
Women

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Doggyland

Doggyland is a 3D animated series created by Snoop Dogg, October London and Claude Brooks, Executive Producer of Hip Hop Harry. The show features a colorful cast of dogs in a vibrant world where they sing, rap and dance to fun and educational songs that teach learning and cognitive fundamentals for kids all around the world.

The songs help promote social emotional development as well as age related cognitive development in the preschool set and older. We cover a wide range of engaging topics such as letters, numbers, colors, animals, good habits, hygiene, accepting others and more, along with modern remixes of classic nursery rhymes. Our music is made by award winning producers, rappers and singers resulting in tunes that everyone in the family can enjoy, allowing parents to participate in their child’s learning experience.

The NAACP nominated show is centered on a group of puppies led by an adult mentor named Bow Wizzle, who is voiced by Snoop Dogg. Every dog is different in color and shape to help promote diversity and inclusion.

Viewing (Television/DVD/Blu-Ray ):
Family Viewing

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200 Essential Reading Skills for Third Grade

The Third Grade Essential Skills program provides a rigorous 36-week curriculum with easy-to-follow comprehension, spelling, and grammar lessons.

These lessons build 200 essential reading skills to understand new ideas, make connections, write effectively, and unlock deeper comprehension of a wide range of texts.

This extensive Grade 3 workbook provides a rigorous curriculum with:
200 essential reading skills
72 comprehension lessons
fiction and nonfiction texts
72 spelling lessons
36 grammar lessons
4 reviews that test knowledge
answer sheets
a yearly planner
full-color pages
217 pages in total

This workbook is based on the online reading program Reading Eggspress, which is part of the multi-award winning Reading Egg suite.

Educational Products:
Ages 5 to 8

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200 Essential Reading Skills for Fourth Grade

The Fourth Grade Essential Skills program provides a rigorous 36-week curriculum with easy-to-follow comprehension, spelling, and grammar lessons.

These lessons build 200 essential reading skills to understand new ideas, make connections, write effectively, and unlock deeper comprehension of a wide range of texts.

This extensive Grade 4 workbook provides a rigorous curriculum with:
200 essential reading skills
72 comprehension lessons
fiction and nonfiction texts
72 spelling lessons
36 grammar lessons
4 reviews that test knowledge
answer sheets
a yearly planner
full-color pages
217 pages in total

This workbook is based on the online reading program Reading Eggspress, which is part of the multi-award winning Reading Egg suite.

Educational Products:
Ages 9 to 12

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200 Essential Reading Skills for Fifth Grade

The workbooks complement the Reading Eggspress literacy program for children in Grade 5. It provides a rigorous 36-week curriculum with easy-to-follow comprehension, spelling, and grammar lessons.

These lessons build 200 essential reading skills to understand new ideas, make connections, write effectively, and unlock deeper comprehension of a wide range of texts.

This extensive Grade 5 workbook provides a rigorous curriculum with:
200 essential reading skills
72 comprehension lessons
fiction and nonfiction texts
72 spelling lessons
36 grammar lessons
4 reviews that test knowledge
answer sheets
a yearly planner
full-color pages
217 pages in total

Research shows that children enjoy the greatest gains in learning by using a combination of digital and print resources. With the award-winning Essential Skills workbook series, it’s never been easier to support your child’s reading development, straight from home.

Educational Products:
Ages 9 to 12

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