This plush dog from Fisher-Price is called, in full, Leerplezier Meegroeispeelgoed Puppy. It wears a white shirt with coloured letters, has a heart on its chest that lights up, and coloured press points on hand and foot.
Press the heart, a hand, the foot or an ear and the puppy answers. The box promises more than a hundred first words and more than seventy-five songs, sounds and phrases, among them the Dutch nursery song 'Alle eendjes zwemmen in het water'. The subjects listed on it: first words, colours, body parts, the alphabet, numbers and counting, and everyday activities.
The grow-along function, called Smart Stages on the box, has three levels - exploring, encouraging and pretending - so what the puppy says changes as your child grows. The same cuddly toy carries on from babyhood into the toddler years. The box states 6-36M.
This version speaks Dutch, which makes it an obvious present for a first birthday, a christening or a new arrival.
