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The Amazon 2024 Toys We Love list is out now: Our favorite Christmas gift ideas
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The holidays may seem like a lifetime away, but the most-wanted toys sell out fast each year. Amazon is here to help you get ahead of the scramble with its annual Toys We Love list.
This year’s list, which is curated by the Amazon Toys team, is the retailer’s largest yet, with gift ideas from Radio Flyer, Squishmallows, Hasbro and more kid-loved brands. There’s something for every budget: These gifts for babies, toddlers and kids start at less than $10.
Best gift ideas from the 2024 Amazon Toys We Love List
Shop some highlights from Amazon’s 2024 Toys We Love list below, broken up by age group. Or tap the button to shop the full list at Amazon.
Best gifts for babies and toddlers at Amazon in 2024
Little ones will love these Christmas and Hanukkah gifts.
Wild Republic Amazon exclusive holiday fox plush
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Stuffed animals are a classic holiday gift. This adorable Amazon-exclusive fox is the star of Amazon’s upcoming Holiday Gift Book. He’s ready for winter in a green scarf.
This 12-inch plush for all ages is made from 100% recycled materials sourced from plastic water bottles.
This cuddly fox is available for pre-order now and will be released on November 20.
Wild Republic Amazon exclusive holiday bear plush
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If bears are more their thing, check out this plush. This precious holiday bear for all ages is also in Amazon’s upcoming Holiday Gift Book.
He’s all dressed up in a hat and sweater and, like the fox plush above, is made from 100% recycled materials sourced from plastic water bottles.
This bear plush is available for pre-order now and will be released on November 20.
Best Christmas gifts for kids at Amazon in 2024
Kids will love these gifts from Play-Doh, Furby and more brands.
Mudpuppy ocean life puzzle to go
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This 36-piece puzzle for ages 3 and up features life under the sea. It comes in a travel pouch and is an ideal size for an airplane tray table. It even comes with a postcard with the completed puzzle art for your kid to mail to a friend or family member from your trip.
“These are the best puzzles I’ve found for my 3.5-year-old that aren’t large floor puzzles,” an Amazon reviewer says. “The pieces fit very nicely into each other and are not too hard to put together. They fit so snug that you can carefully pick up the puzzle whole when done.”
“They clean up/store easily with the travel pouch and will be nice for restaurants (instead of phones and tablets) because of their size and portability,” another Amazon reviewer says.
Toniebox audio player starter set
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This audio player for kids ages 3 and up is great for bedtime stories, music and education. It offers screen-free entertainment and comes with action figures called Tonies. Kids can place these figures on top of their Tonies radio to start their stories.
This radio comes with Woody from “Toy Story,” Lightning McQueen from “Cars,” Simba from “The Lion King” and Winnie-the-Pooh Tonies. Kids can press the radio’s ears to change its volume.
This audio player is currently $155, reduced from $172.
Play-Doh pizza delivery scooter playset
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They can deliver pizza on a Vespa with this career playset for ages 3 to 5.
This set comes with a non-electronic scooter and a pretend play kitchen. Kids can make Play-Doh pizzas and there’s a slot for the pizza box on the scooter. All of the Play-Doh fun can be stored in the scooter’s seat when not in use and there’s a checkout station on the side of the scooter so customers can pay with a pretend card or cash.
This playset comes with 16 tools and 10 colors.
Furby Galaxy Edition
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Furbies are still going strong. This glow-in-the-dark creature comes with 15 fashion accessories and is ideal for ages 6 and up. It’s voice-activated and an Amazon exclusive.
This Furby with a galaxy vibes lights up and dances. It talks to other Furby friends too.
“This is not your parent’s Furby,” an Amazon reviewer says. “The new multi-color lime green, violet, purple and blue Furby Galaxy Edition is an electronic, interactive toy that’s out of this world courtesy of Hasbro Toys. Such a chatterbox!”
Miniland doll wooden wheelchair
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This play wheelchair for dolls with a cute polka dot seat is beautifully made of wood.
It’s meant to expand their play experience to include people (and dolls) of all abilities.
This wooden wheelchair is ideal for ages 2 through 6.
It’s a high-quality toy you can pass down to kids to come.
Beautiful Brown Ballet 64-piece jigsaw puzzle
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This cute puzzle from a Black-owned business features three prima ballerinas on stage in their tutus.
They’ll feel seen with this puzzle that has 64 pieces and encourages a love for the arts.
This puzzle is intended for ages 4 and up.
The Beautiful Brown Ballet jigsaw puzzle is running out of stock quickly, so be sure to order today.
Monopoly GO! board game
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This is an IRL version of the beloved Monopoly GO! phone game. It’s for ages 8 and up and two to four players. You can play it in just 15 minutes.
To play, players roll dice and move their tokens around their own mini-board at the same time. If you’re the first to stack four matching-colored blocks on a color space, you win. You can sabotage rivals with bank heists and shutdowns. There are four double-sided mini-gameboards with locations like New York City, the Roaring ’20s and Unicorn Land.
This game comes with a code for a free exclusive digital token to use in the Monopoly GO! app.
Goliath Fidget Blox 3-pack
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Stress isn’t for adults only. These sensory fidget toys can help kids age 5 and up relieve stress by feeling, hearing and seeing. They even come with backpack clips to take to go.
They’ll get three options to fidget with in this set including an hourglass and more. Retailing for just $13, this three-pack makes a great stocking stuffer for kids aged 5 and up.
Best Christmas gifts for teens at at Amazon in 2024
Don’t forget the older kids in your life this Christmas season — Amazon has plenty of great gift ideas for those aged 12 and up. Here are our top Christmas gift ideas for teens you can get at Amazon.
Lego Creator 3-in-1 Forest Animals kit
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Lego toys are always a hit with kids during the holiday season. What we like about this kit is its versatility. You can build a red fox, owl or squirrel using the included 667 pieces. The animals you build are poseable — the fox can move its head and paws, the squirrel has a poseable head and ears and the owl’s head turns 360 degrees. When you’re done enjoying your build, you can take it apart and make one of the other animals.
“If you have a Lego fanatic like I do, the 3 in 1 builds are great,” says one Amazon reviewer of the 4.9-star-rated Lego set. “This is a great concept to keep your Lego builder engaged without having to buy more Legos (you get three builds!) and has encouraged [the] kiddo to rethink his Legos to build in many ways.
Find this kit at Amazon for $49. Reviewers suggest the final builds are so cute, you may want to buy more than one set so you don’t have to choose which to build.
Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player’s Handbook
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Ever wanted to get involved with Dungeons and Dragons, but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you’re playing in a campaign and want to know more about your options while playing? Then you need this book.
The Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player’s Handbook is the ultimate guide to the pen-and-paper role-playing game. The new-for-2024 fifth-edition book contains updates to character classes, reworked species and backstories, new and revised spells and hundreds of pages of fantasy art.
This book will be released on Sept. 17, 2024. It retails for $50, but you can pre-order it at Amazon now for $45. It make a great stand-alone gift, but it’s even better when paired with the updated Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide ($50) and Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Monster Manual ($50) books.
CMYK Wavelength: The party gameshow in a box
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The rules behind Wavelength are simple, but addictive. One person gives their team a clue that fits somewhere on a certain spectrum — for example, they might give the clue “coffee” for a spectrum of hot to cold. The rest of the team then needs to pinpoint exactly where on the hot-to-cold spectrum they think coffee is. The more in sync the team is with the clue giver, the more points you score.
Reviwers love that the game is quick to learn and easy to set up — the entire thing is played inside the box. Anywhere from 2 to 12 people can play.
“I can’t recommend CMYK Wavelength enough,” says on Amazon reviewer about the 4.7-star-rated game. “It’s a guaranteed hit for game nights, offering an experience that’s super fun, engaging and totally memorable. If you’re on the lookout for a game that bridges the gap between serious and silly, that accommodates both small and large groups, and that promises endless hours of entertainment, this is the one.”
Find CYMK Wavelength it at Amazon for $31, reduced from $40. It’s recommended for ages 14 and up.
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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