For Immediate Release: 8/3/05
For more information, contact: media@iparenting.com

Evanston, IL – iParenting Media is pleased to announce the winners of our Outstanding Products of 2005 Call for Entries, during which we evaluated items ranging from fun ride-on toys, innovative baby gear, books and videos to educational software and helpful household products. All of the items were thoroughly evaluated by experienced reviewers to determine which ones exceeded the standards to earn an award.

The evaluation process utilized by the iParenting Media Awards program is so thorough it has attained ISO 9001:2000 Certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO is the world's largest developer of standardization regulations, and ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally recognized standard of quality assurance.

“The iParenting Media Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the very best products in the marketplace and making parents aware of them. We kept that responsibility in mind as we determined the Outstanding Products of 2005,” says Alvin All, Chief Executive Officer of iParenting Media. “Products that earned the iParenting Media Award exceeded the high evaluation standards we set. The next step is to share them with our audience throughout our publications and connect them directly with consumers via our retailer network online directory.”

To be considered for an award, each company submitted four identical samples of each product, which were then precisely matched within iParenting’s database of hundreds of experienced reviewers using iParenting’s state-of-the-art technology. An expert, a childcare setting and a family reviewed the products and submitted a thorough evaluation of each item. Results were compiled and submitted to the iParenting Media Executive Committee for final approval. The end result of this comprehensive process is a list of award-winning products families can feel confident in purchasing for their loved ones.

Here is the list of all the iParenting Media Award winners for the Outstanding Products of 2005 Call for Entries:

Company Name Product Title 3G Publishing Inc. Childhood Medical Journal CD About Your Time BusyBodyBook Activision, Inc. Madagascar Aeronix Zipit Wireless Messenger ALEX Rub A Dub Fishing in the Tub ALEX Rub A Dub Shaving in the Tub Alfred Publishing Girl's Bass Method Alfred Publishing Together in Rhythm Alfred Publishing Alfred's Kids Drum Course Book 1 Alfred Publishing Music Made Easy: Guitar AMACOM Mommy Guilt AMACOM A Parent's Guide to Special Education American Carriage House Publishing Adoption: Your Step by Step Guide American Girl Elizabeth Doll and Book Anchor Bay Mister Rogers Neighborhood: Adventures in Friendship Aromababy Natural Skincare Pure Baby Moisture Cream Aromababy Natural Skincare Pure Baby Wash Aromababy Natural Skincare Natural Barrier Balm Aromababy Natural Skincare Stretched to the Limit Automoblox Co. Automoblox® M9 Automoblox Co. Automoblox® X9 Sport Utility Aya World Productions FUNdamentals of Music and Movement "Let's Pretend" B*tween Productions Pink Eiffel Pillow Baby Bridges Baby Bridges "Space and Sea" Baby Einstein Discover and Play Musical Pop-Up Book Baby Einstein Baby Monet Babycom USA Hisita Booster Seat Babycom USA Baby Gender Mentor™ Home DNA Gender Testing Kit Barking Lobster Entertainment Let's Go Lobstering Binney & Smith Crayola Erasable Markers Breyer Animal Creations Glamour Girls Ranch with Horse and Rider Briarpatch DaVinci's Challenge BubbleBuds Enterprises Inc. The BubbleBuds DVD Buena Vista Home Entertainment Sacred Planet Buena Vista Home Entertainment Pooh's Heffalump Movie Buena Vista Home Entertainment Pocahontas 10th Anniversary Edition Buena Vista Home Entertainment National Treasure CoCaLo, Inc. Blanket CoopSport International CoopKids First Goal Hockey Set Cranium Inc. Whoonu Cranium Inc. Cranium Family Fun Dearborn Trade Publishing Kidnapped: How Irresponsible Marketers Are Stealing the Minds of Your Children Digital Praise Sword of the Spirit Digital Praise Treasure of the Incas Discovery Toys Kiddie Carnival Discovery Toys Safari Connection Discovery Toys A B Seas Double Blessings Inc. EZ-2-Nurse Twins Feeding Pillow Elegant Child of Beverly Hills Gaga for Giraffes Elope Inc. The Clucker Enginuity LLC Tylz! Magnetic Puzzle Game ETA Cuisenaire Jumbo Reading Rods Alphabet and Picture Set ETA Cuisenaire Learning Place Early Childhood Game Cards ETA Cuisenaire VersaTiles Kindergarten Starter Set Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Skill Sharpeners Franklin Electronic Publishers Children's Speller & Dictionary Free Spirit Publishing 100 Things Guys Need to Know Front Porch Classics, Inc. Raceway 57 Front Porch Classics, Inc. Circa Baseball Gamewright Leaping Lizards Gamewright Granny Apples Gamewright The Scrambled States of America 2 Genius Products Kids' Dance Party Genius Products Tonka Playtime Tunes GeoPlunge GeoPlunge, U.S. Edition Girls Explore Mary Cassatt Doll Set Goldberger Doll Co. Mommy’s Magic Cell Phone™ Goldberger Doll Co. Potty Time Tinkles™ Goldbrick Games Perpetual Commotion Goo-Ga The Peanut Shell Baby Sling Grape Games 'Bouta Face HABA Indian Summer HarperCollins Publishers A Few Good Eggs Hasbro, Inc. Transformers Cybertron Starscream Her Interactive, Inc. Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock Household Name Products Happi Tummi How B'azaar Spill-N-Wash Hubbub Inc. Ruckus innovative KIDS Get Ready for Kindergarten Inspiration Software, Inc. Inspiration® for Pocket PC International Playthings My Fairy Best Friend International Playthings Egg & Spoon Race International Playthings The Story Telling Game itoys Inc. Doodle Tunes Jazwares Distribution, Inc. Inventions in Boats & More KETTLER International Kettrike Brummi KETTLER International Foldable Playpen KETTLER International Futura Highchair Kindermusik International Riddle Me This! Kindermusik International Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes Kindermusik International It's All In The Rhythm Langenscheidt Publishing Group Berlitz Baby Talk & Tunes Laurel Hill Entertainment, Inc. Adventures with Wink & Blink: A Day in the Life of a Zoo! Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc. My First LeapPad® Learning System Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc. LeapStages™ Infant Learning System Learning Horizons Sesame Street® Learn About Measuring with Big Bird Learning Horizons Sesame Street® Know Your Numbers Learning Horizons Sesame Street® Discovering Letter Sounds Learning Horizons Sesame Street® My Healthy Body Learning Horizons Parents Magazine™ Let's Clean Up! Company Name Product Title Learning Resources Gears! Gears! Gears! Wacky Wigglers Motorized Set Learning Resources Trace & Learn Cake Learning Resources Pretend & Play School Set LEGO Systems, Inc Wild Hunters Logitech Logitech Tiger Mouse Logitech Logitech Spot Mouse Loving Guidance Inc. Shubert Sees the Best Maryann Palumbo Marketing Concepts Stepchildren Speak Mega Bloks Inc. Tiny’n Tuff® Race’n Go Rig MOBI Technologies Crystal Breeze Air Purifier & Ionizer MOBI Technologies TykeLight Stroller Pathway Light Monty Harper Productions The Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD Neat Solutions, Inc Changing Table Topper Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer: Big Sister Dora DVD Odyssey Toys Pirate Scapes Blackbeard's Sunken Treasure Pacific Play Tents Star Dressing Room Pacific Play Tents Dino Tent & Tunnel Combo Patemm & Company Patemm Pad™ Peddling Words What No One Tells the Mom Peg Perego John Deere Farm Tractor with Trailer Pen Notes Inc. Learn Time Penguin Group Raising a Sensory Smart Child Penton Overseas Inc. Sparky the Firefly Pers Pookie and Tushka Find a Little Piano Peter Sheras I Can't Believe You Went Through My Stuff! How to Give Your Teens the Privacy They Crave and the Guidance They Need Pig Pen Designs Chalkboard Placemat & Splat Mat Playhut, Inc. Mystikats, Kalani Playhut, Inc. Mystikats, Siva Playhut, Inc. Mystikats, Talin Playmates Toys Yo-Stick Playroom Entertainment Hear 'N Seek Princess Soft Toys Pray With Me Parker Prosperity4Kids, Inc. It's Only a Dollar...Until You Add to It! Allowance Chart Publications International Sight and Sound: Words Publications International Surprise Sing-Along with Magic Mirror Screen Publications International Sing-Along Microphone Book Publications International The Diabetic Bible Raising An All-American Raising An All-American Razor Razor Pro Model™ Kick Scooter Reader's Digest Young Families Zebras Reader's Digest Young Families Wolves Rodale Books Lean Mom, Fit Family Rogar Studios, Inc. Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works: Ditties for Little Kiddies - Volume 2 RoseKnows Inc. GEIST Junior Sandman Records Turn Up the Music SaraBear Baskets SaraBear Diaper Caddy SC Johnson Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner SC Johnson OFF! Deep Woods Towelettes ScreamFree Parenting ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool ScreamFree Parenting Media Partners LLC ScreamFree Parent Training Audio Program Shad Weathersby Chomp Chomp Smart Picks Inc. The Fruit Flies Picnic Snap TV Games Eco-Rangers: Animal Kingdom DVD Game Spark Press Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family Star Electronics Turn 'n Tunes Window Shade Stay at Home and Learn Productions LLC Lemons 2 Lemonade: How to Handle Life When Things Go Sour Between Mom and Dad Stepping Stones For Life Ltd. When You're About to Go Off the Deep End, Don't Take Your Kids with You Swingsets, Inc. Power Play The Adventures of Earl the Squirrel Earl the Squirrel The Amazing Miracle Blanket The Amazing Miracle Blanket The First Moms Club Press How To Become An Entrepreneurial Kid Theraline US C-Belt Tommy Nelson Big Topics for Little Kids: Tell Me About Eternity Toy Play ¡Eso Es! Maya Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 1: My First Signs DVD Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 1: My First Signs VHS Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 2: Playtime Signs DVD Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 2: Playtime Signs VHS Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 3: Everyday Signs DVD Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 3: Everyday Signs VHS Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 4: Feelings, Family and Fun DVD Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 4: Feelings, Family and Fun VHS Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 6: My Favorite Things DVD Two Little Hands Productions Signing Time! Volume 6: My Favorite Things VHS USED Words LLC Our Drink: Detoxing the Perfect Family Visionaire Products Peter Potty Vital Health Publishing The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook: 200 Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes for the Food Allergic Family VTech Electronics V.Smile Pocket Learning System VTech Electronics Write and Learn Artboard Wai Lana Yoga Wai Lana's Little Yogis Fun Exercise Book Walt Disney Records Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra Walt Disney Records Baby Einstein Traveling Melodies Walt Disney Records Mousercise WanaBees Media Introducing the WanaBees Watering Can Press The Giving Book: Open the Door to a Lifetime of Giving Watering Can Press The Hero Book: Learning Lessons from the People You Admire Wee Bee Music Wiggle and Whirl, Clap and Nap Wiggles 3D Incorporated Don't Quote Me - Time For Kids Edition Wizards of the Coast Neopets® The Lost Desert Trading Card Game Zen Momma, Inc Bye Bye Boo Boo from Baby Cakes

iParenting Media operates one of the Internet's most popular communities for parents and parents-to-be at www.iParenting.com. The company publishes the national newsstand magazine Family Energy: Your Guide to Raising Healthy Kids, the #1 family health magazine in the country, and iParenting Media Award winners are featured in each issue of the magazine. iParenting's Editor-in-Chief, Elisa Ast All, MSJ, writes a syndicated monthly newspaper column and co-hosts an A.I.R.-nominated radio show, Points on Parenting, in which she features her favorite iParenting Media Award winners.

iParenting offers four Call for Entries periods each year and our next Call for Entries, the 2005 Greatest Products Call, is open now until Friday, September 9, 2005, with products due in our Evanston, IL, headquarters by Friday, September 16. Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 2, 2005, just in time for the holidays. To learn more and to submit your product, visit www.iParentingMediaAwards.com.

Media inquiries: media@iparenting.com, 847-556-2300. Photos and product descriptions of award-winning items are available.