LeapFrog have been creating great educational toys that are fun and entertaining for years. Tapping into children's natural desire to learn new skills and explore the world around them. Now, LeapFrog have introduced a new range. The New LeapFrog Toys exploit our kids' natural desire to emulate the adults around them.

Based on computers, BlackBerrys, PDAs and other modern tools our children just love to play with, the New Range of LeapFrog Toys mean you get your personal technology back into safe adult hands, whilst the children can expand their skills and knowledge with something a little more user friendly for those tots with sticky fingers and a tendency to drop things!

The Range of LeapFrog PDA tools is wide, offering entertainment and education for all age ranges. Built in durable curved designs ideal for small hands to hold. Cute characters, funny graphics and childlike audio give these educational real kid appeal whilst satisfying their desire to 'copy the grown ups' too.

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The following are the best selling Preschool Educational Toys from LeapFrog.  Hopefully the information will help you decide which, if any are suitable for the kids in your life.

The hot new 'Must Have' electronic toy for tots. The LeapFrog Text and Learnis marketed for children from 3 to 6 years. But, customer reviews at Amazon and various techno websites indicate it is actually enjoyed by two year olds and twenty somethings alike. Though admittedly the tots probably gain a lot more knowledge during this 'Pretend Play'!

The Leap Frog Text and Learn has only been on the shelves for a few months but is fast storming up the best seller lists with the largest toy retailers. In the UK amazon are already running low on supplies, so UK Buyers need to get their orders placed pretty swiftly if the kids are not to be disappointed this year.

UK Customers can buy the LeapFrog Text and Learn Here.

Designed to resemble a PDA or BlackBerry the Text & Learn from LeapFrog gives children the modern grown up products they crave. But this is designed most definitely with children and their learning in mind. The key skills targeted with the Text and Learn are:

• QWERTY keyboard skills
• The Alphabet
• Shapes
• Following Directions

Activities range from browsing 'Scout's' calendar, to sending and receiving text messages from this cute character. Games to improve recognition and motor skills include popping bubbles by finding the correct letters quickly. There is lots to do, but perhaps most importantly for our youngsters, this 'toy' really does resemble a grown up personal electronic device.

No more hunting for your PDA then, as now the children have their own to keep them entertained on the move.

As with all the new Educational Toys from LeapFrog, this one gives parents access to their Learning Path. This is a unique and free tool providing suggestions and ideas to help your child's educational and developmental progress.

Silly animations and sound affects should keep your kids glued to the LeapFrog Text and Learn screen and that can only be a good thing as they are learning the skills needed to get on in our modern, technology bound world.

Another new addition to the LeapFrog Toys Learning range is the LeapFrog Scribble and Write. This offers children from 3 to 5 years the chance to begin both recognising and creating letters and shapes.

The touch pad is used with a stylus, allowing children to create text and shapes on the screen. Tracying the lights on the screen children are taught how to use a pencil and how to form each letter. Games develop various life skills including:

• The Alphabet
  
• Phonics
• Pencil Control
• Writing Skills

With detailed instruction for new writing skills, recognition and motor skills are all being trained at an early stage. One re-traceable surface makes this a particularly good portable solution to early literacy skill development.

Ideal for portable learning the LeapFrog Scribble and Write has four learning levels to help your child develop from simple shapes to upper and lower case letters.

Again parents are invited to register and join the LeapFrog Learning Path for ideas on how to help your child's learning progress.

What better way to keep the children entertained than with a Games Console.  But, no worries about unsuitable content here, the LeapFrog Leapster 2 uses our kids desire to play with modern handheld games consoles to teach them a wide range of valuable skills for their futures.

The Learning Game System can be used as a portable device (it is battery operated) to entertain and educate on the move.  But, crucially the device can also be used connected to the internet.  This allows online 'gaming' with the LeapFrog site which can be recorded.  Parents can stay up to date with their child's progress and interests by logging onto their Learning Path.

Two games are preloaded into the Leapster 2.  One basic artwork package which to be honest does not have the best reviews, but then maybe you do need to be within the correct age range (4 - 8 years) to reallyappreciate this program.  The second game 'Dragons to the Rescue' is a lot more entertaining and educational, with rave reviews from both kids and adults.  Under the pretext of collecting magic crystals and navigating dragons through dangerous clouds, children learn about numeracy and literacy from basic number and letter recognition through to spelling and multiplication problems.

A full library of over 30 other games previously developed for the original Leapster are all compatible with the LeapFrog Leapster 2.  At around $40 this is one games console sure to enlighten your little ones for a long time.

These three New LeapFrog Toys are simply the best because they offer our children the same tools they see us adults using on a daily basis. Practice Play is all about copying others and practicing what they see.

With these LeapFrog Educational Toys you can see children's desire to have adult seeming products but designed specifically with their skills in mind come to fruition.

The LeapFrog Leapster 2 and Leapster Scribble and Write are set to be enjoyed by many, while the LeapFrog Text and Learn is tipped as a top spot in this year's Christmas Toy sales - not bad for something 'educational'.