Fisher Price Interactive Baby Grand Piano

Product Name: Fisher Price Interactive Baby Grand Piano

Submitted by: Brannan Sirratt, Fayetteville, AR

Rating: 8

Where to buy: Amazon.com

Description: Fisher-Price has done it again! This interactive "piano" is so much more than lights and sounds. Three settings (play time, music time and learning time) maximize the learning and exploring potential of each interactive feature.

The keyboard on the front has eight keys, each with its corresponding number and one of four colors. The keys can play a note, sing the scale and say each color or number, depending on the mode that is toggled. In addition, pressing a key will play portions of the song that the songbook is showing.

This colorful book makes page-turning sounds and has each note coded by color and number for older kids to learn the songs. On the back of the piano, there are several buttons and switches teaching everything from pitch to speed to just plain silliness. With a nearly endless possibility of noises to make, it will be some time before your child bores with this toy.

Review: My son received this at 3 months old with us all thinking, "It will be awhile before he enjoys it." Not so! Within the week he was fascinated with keeping the songs playing by banging on the flashing keyboard, and it wasn't long before he was turning the pages to play the song he wanted.

It has been nearly 3 more months, now, and he sits alone at his piano and serenades us all. It's not quite enough to let the piano play songs anymore; he wants to play it on the individual note setting. He's even working his large muscles by pulling himself to standing by it. A major plus is that if it turns over during this process, there are no edges that may hurt him. With so much more for him to discover, I can't see him getting bored soon.

Beside the incredible innovation put into this little package, it is super-durable. With all of the pounding, drooling, pulling and tipping, this toy has yet to show even the slightest hint of use.

All in all, this is a wonderful, durable developmental toy. (And this is coming from a nearly anti-battery-toy mama)

Criticism: I would watch the dancing face, however. If little fingers held on at just the right spot, I can see how they'd get pinched.