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Marianne Szymanski:
If you buy your child a sports toy because maybe their throw isn't the best and you want to practice it - that's great. But if a child doesn't have interest in this and you really have to push it, you're wasting your money because the child's not ready to play with that toy.

Marianne Szymanski of Toytips.com and publisher of Toy Tips magazine, says one of her favorite toys this year for young kids are building blocks made by a company called Kapla.

They're made in Germany. And the reason I like those is because they're just unfinished wooden blocks - and they're so imaginative. But those just kind of stood out because they're just the old fashioned basic wooden block and when we introduced those in focus groups kids just loved them. It's the kind of toy you'll just sit there and play with over and over again.

Robotic toys are very popular this year and Marianne says…

There's one that stands out, it's made by Woo Wee and it's a dragonfly. And it's different because it's very light, it's made out of Styrofoam and the direction on it is great. You can hover it, you can fly it around the room (I don't recommend these to be used inside the house very often, but in the winter months they probably will) but in that case if it falls, because it's made of Styrofoam it won't break very easy - but it's fun.

You can link to Marianne's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.