A bright colored ball has a quiet chime inside. It has multiple patterns and six easy-to-grab loops. Several of the loops have rings that can be fingered and that make a quiet clacking sound. Attach it to the stroller with the black and white plastic loop that baby will enjoy grasping. This is a perfect little toy for all the senses. It will attract newborns gaze and then be ideal for reaching out and touching, hearing and tasting. It's bound to grow on as baby begins to crawl and can chase it. Newborn and up.

Age: Infants. Award Year: 2011.

An adorable huggable with many textures and patterns for a sitting up baby to investigate. Hot pink with licks of high contrast black and white and lavender, this smiling bunny has a round body so it can sit up without help. It has stitched features and a body with many eye-catching patterns. Its long floppy ears are lined in satin and they have tabs of ribbons and plush knotties for little fingers to explore. Turn it around and there's a surprising silky pom-pom puff of a tail. A good choice for sitting up babies and young toddlers. Unlike the Cute as a button Cuddly Lion which is machine washable, the Diva Bunny is only surface cleanable.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

For the youngest little sluggers in the making, here is a small royal blue and tan bear with no stuffing. It's made of velvety velour with a small tan head topped with a baseball cap. Infants.

Age: Infants. Award Year: 2011. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

An adorable huggable with many textures and patterns for a sitting up baby to investigate. Bright yellow with a round body, this happy faced lion has stitched features and a body with stripes, dots, and knitted surfaces. Its mane has tabs of felt, ribbon and plush knotties for little fingers to explore. Even the pads of its paws have a surprising satiny feel. Machine washable. A good choice for sitting up babies and young toddlers.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

With silky smooth satin backing in acid green, this 12" blanky toy has lots to explore for all the senses. It has crinkle sounds in the body, multiple textures on the gator's front. There are knotties, loops and patterns to attract baby's interest. At the end of the gator's tail are two plastic rings to hold and best of all, two chewy teethers for legs with raised dots and wavy ridges. We wish the gater had bigger eyes, since babies are attracted to faces, especially the eyes. But there's more than enough to make up for the rather bland looking face. Consider, too last year's winner teether from the same line, the Teether Bear Blanket.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011.

Hot pink satin on one side and velour prints on the other side, this 12"X 12" blanky has textures to explore and some crinkle sounds. There are satin knotties, ribbons tabes, plush loop, felt tabs and a crinkly shimmery silver ruffle. This is an eye catching lovie that babies may find both stimulating to explore and comforting to hold.

Age: Infants. Award Year: 2011.

Strap this cute Hula Girl onto the arm of the stroller. It has lots of textures for your sitting-up baby to explore. Her skirt is made of strips of bright satiny ribbons and so is the small purple satin ukulele. Her big black and white eyes will catch baby's attention and all of her features are stitched for safety. Her zany sea of aqua felt hair will invite little fingers to touch. There's a quiet rattle inside that baby will hear as you them roll along. There's a lot of sensory feedback built into this little toy. 

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

An unbelievable soft and comfy blanket that is 30" X 32" done in a shaggy but non-shedding fabric on one side with a velvety velour on the reverse. It comes packages with a very small flat velour bunny with crinkle inside and a shaggy head. Talk about a security blankie--this is it!! Also available in pink.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011.

Talk about soft and smushy, this 12" blue shaggy bunny has floppy long ears lined with a velvety fabric, a satiny ribbon and stitched features. The plush does not shed and the doll is machine washable. There is a smaller Blue Baby Cozy($20) 8" bunny with no stuffing at all and a velour like underside. One should be $10 but they come in a two-pack so one is always clean and ready and not among the missing. These are also available in Pink. Infants & up.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011.

Choose one of these take along 7-inch rattles that clips to infant chair or stroller. There's a blue faced dog with green plaid ring that baby can easily grip; a purple Owl with big eyes and calico checked triangular body; and a yellow faced bug with green wings and square shaped body. All three are made of patterned knit fabrics with contrasting patterns and plastic rings to finger or chew on. They have a quiet rattle sound and are machine washable. Good for gazing and early lap games. The company has signed a verification form complying with our safety requirements. We did not independently test this toy in a lab.

Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2011.