Each year, Amazon.com releases its Holiday Toy List, showcasing the most desired and recommended toys kids want for the holidays. The toy list is again organized by children’s age groups and by price, and, like last year, they’ve showcased the toys through videos–an improvement, I’d say! See the Amazon’s Holiday Toy List 2009.

For the past 18 years, Marianne has provided parents with unbiased information on how to select products that enhance a child’s development. The Toy Tips Research Institute is a year-round program of toy evaluation and testing that does not accept submission fees from toy manufacturers.

Marianne and a team of psychologists at multiple universities wrote an independent academic profile which is the basis of her research. Marianne has led her organization’s unbiased play tests of over 45,000 toys and publishes Toy Tips report cards and profiles on each toy based on skill-based learning on toytips.com. You may have seen her on The Rachael Ray Show, Oprah, CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Discovery Channel, FOX, Lifetime or The Early Show and close to 300 local news stations across the country.

Toy Tips with Marianne Szymanski