This week in awesome news: our Wee You-Things Blocks earned the coveted Parents' Choice Gold Award. (Yay!) Since 1978, Parents' Choice award seals have helped parents identify high quality toys and media that encourage kids' creativity and celebrate the fun of learning.
Eli the Elephant and Tobias the Turtle made their national television debut in Art.com's new commercial. Check it out for great ideas on how to give your walls a little love, and see if you can spot our Wee friends.
We're thrilled to see our new iOS app, Wee You-Things making the "favorites" lists of some of our favorite blogs. Apps Playground named Wee You-Things a Best New Children's App during the week it launched, and Geeks With Juniors named it on its monthly list of Best New Apps for Juniors. And here's what some other bloggers and app reviewers had to say about the app:
In celebration of the launch of our new Wee You-Things app, we're giving away a set of You-Things blocks to one lucky winner. It might be you. Like us on Facebook, and pin for a chance to win.
It's a big day here at Wee Society. Today we released Wee You-Things, our newest iOS interactive book app designed to encourage kids (ages 3-7) to understand and value differences.
In it, a quirky crew of characters celebrates "you-things" – those little and big things that, together, make you special and like no one else in the world. Ruth has a purple tooth. Little Dot gets scared a lot. Brad has two dads. Ling pretends that she's a king. After meeting 22 new friends, kids are asked, "What's your you-thing?" and get to become part of the story.
"No other app takes on this importand topic in such a fun way," says Carolina Nugent, Education Director, KinderTown, which helps parents find quality educational apps for kids. "It opens up so many possibilities for conversations between kids and adults. And by calling them 'you-things,' Wee Society has created a new vocabulary for talking about differences."
We're pretty excited that the Wee Alphas App was selected as a Webby Awards Official Honoree for Best Visual Design.
The Webby Awards is the leading international competition honoring excellence on the web. With 11,000 entries recieved from all 50 US states and over 60 countries, the Official Honoree distinction is awarded to only the top 10% of all work entered. Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Thank you, Academy! And congrats to our design partner, Office.
Download the app in the App Store.
There's been a crush of online excitement for Wee You-Things Blocks. Check out what a few of our favorite blogs had to say.
"If there was an award for cutest kids building blocks, Wee Society would take it home! The Wee You-Things Blocks are a thing of beauty...Yay for well designed, and well crafted kids' toys." -Swiss Miss
"We love how Wee Society combines bright colors, artisanal craftsmanship, and a sense of humor to create the funkiest blocks around." -Inhabitots
"A beautiful block set to spark imagination." -Lofty Littles
We're feeling the love. Get your very own set here and build something awesome.
You may have noticed that Wee Society has a few new friends. Who are these curious characters, you ask? Well, they're from Wee You-Things, a new interactive book and happy app we created to help kids understand and celebrate differences, and to provide a starting point for parents to have important conversations in a fun, engaging way.
It's coming soon. In the meantime, stay tuned to meet more of the growing Wee Society gang.