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* An old favourite is the Mirror Chimeabout, made by Edu-Play and available from Step by Step (0845 300 1089) at 57.95. It consists of a wooden stand hung round with 12 strips of mirror Perspex, each with a small bell attached. Just a touch sets the reflections dancing and the bells softly jingling. The cost may seem high, but the toy is solid and well-made and has a long and honourable track record when it comes to entertaining young babies. * Although babies under six months old don't yet have the skills to build up ring stackers in the right order, they'll enjoy holding, and chewing, the rings in the meantime. The Early Learning Centre (08705 352 352) makes a good wooden stacker for 10 with six brightly coloured, graduated rings and a red ball on top of the central spindle. Tomy does an attractive plastic sorter/stacker available at 12.99 from Galt (08702 424 477). It doesn't have a spindle, but it does have little egg-heads at the centre of each ring which will fit together and make the stack more stable.

* Although babies under six months old don't yet have the skills to build up ring stackers in the right order, they'll enjoy holding, and chewing, the rings in the meantime. The Early Learning Centre (08705 352 352) makes a good wooden stacker for 10 with six brightly coloured, graduated rings and a red ball on top of the central spindle. Tomy does an attractive plastic sorter/stacker available at 12.99 from Galt (08702 424 477). It doesn't have a spindle, but it does have little egg-heads at the centre of each ring which will fit together and make the stack more stable.

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