Important Advisory:

We are now requiring companies to provide us with documentation that their products have been tested by an independent lab for phthalates and lead.
Please click here for submission requirements for new products. However, as we are not a lab, we will not be independently verifying those results. Also, with the exception of the 2008 Platinum Toy Awards, toys submitted for review prior to January 2008 were not tested for lead.

Instructions for submitting product to the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio for review.

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The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio was founded in 1989 as the only independent consumer review of children's media.

Our newsletter is published quarterly and is an ad-free subscription-based periodical for parents, grandparents, libraries and childcare providers. How We Select the Best.

We test and review products for children the year-round-only we get to do what most parents wish they could do before they buy. We open the toys, run the videos, read the books, play the music, and boot up the software. We send the best of these products on to our families of testers for further evaluation.

Unlike most other groups that rate products, we do not charge entry fees or accept ads from manufacturers. When consumers see our award seals on products, they can be assured that they are "award-winning" because they were selected by a noted expert in child development, children's literature, and education, and further tested by the most objective panel of judges-kids.

To get a meaningful sampling, we deal with families from all walks of life. We have testers in the city and in the country, in diapers and in blue jeans, in school clothes and in tutus. They have parents who are teachers, secretaries, lawyers, doctors, writers, engineers, doormen, software programmers, editors, psychologists, librarians, engineers, business people, architects, family therapists, musicians, artists, nurses, and early childhood educators. In some instances we have tested products in preschool and after-school settings where we can get feedback from groups of children.

Since all new products tend to have novelty appeal, we ask our testers to live with a product for a while before assessing it. Among other things, we always ask-would you recommend it to others?

Joanne Oppenheim is one of today's most trusted authorities on child development and education. She is the author of more than forty books for and about children including Kids & Play, Buy Me, Buy Me, and the fourteen annual editions of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.

Stephanie Oppenheim is a child development expert , a former corporate attorney, and is the publisher and co-founder of The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. She is a leading consumer authority on children's media and the mother of two.

The Oppenheims are monthly contributors on NBC's Today Show.