As a parent, I am vigilant about trying to give my daughter toys with educational value.  I want to encourage her to become a lifelong learner and so I shop for toys which align with that same value.  LeapFrog is a quality brand that believes wholeheartedly in making education fun.  Their most recent success is the LeapPad learning tablet made just for kids!

Now, you can help your child create and learn with the LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer. This unique learning tablet gives you access to more than 100 educational books, games, videos, and apps.  Subjects like math, reading, and science are covered in a fun and interactive way, which is sure to help your child excel in school.  The LeapPad even has a built-in camera that can shoot video, allowing kids to make animation and art to share with family and friends.  Keep reading to learn more!

The LeapPad from LeapFrog is designed for children ages 4 through 9 years old and offers an amazing host of features such as:

Kid-Friendly, Interactive Design
Though sleek and thin, the LeapPad can withstand kids' roughhousing and dirty fingers. Designed to be flipped, shaken, and turned by little hands, the LeapPad comes with a tilt sensor for game control that puts kids in the middle of the action. A 5-inch color touch screen makes it easy for kids of all ages to learn and interact.

Built-In Camera Encourages Creativity
Prepare to be amazed by the wacky and touching videos, photos, and artwork that your child will produce using the LeapPad. Voice-guided instructions make it easy for children to edit and share their creations with friends and family. And with 2 GB of built-in memory, the LeapPad has plenty of space to store your budding director's creations.

The built-in camera allows kids to become the stars of their own stories. The Story Studio and Art Studio apps allow children to modify pictures they take and drop them into storybooks. Both apps are free and can be downloaded once you register the device.

Leveled Reading Experience
LeapPad's Ultra eBook are interactive, cinematic experiences designed to guide children through books and immerse them in the joy of reading. Each book is actually three books in one, with different levels and modes optimized to support reading development. As a child builds his/her reading skills, the levels adjust automatically and are remembered from book to book.

The Ultra eBook innovative activities build comprehension skills and expand vocabulary with support features that allow your child to touch a word to see its image, touch an image to see the word highlighted in text, touch words to hear them sounded out, or find definitions in the visual dictionary. All of this with characters that children will love, brought to life through animation that keeps children engaged as they learn.  Print this coupon for an additional $3 off any Ultra eBook!

Discover a World of Learning
With more than 100 learning games, videos, books, and apps available for LeapPad, it's easy to keep your child entertained on long car trips or at your favorite restaurant. LeapPad has a game cartridge slot for backwards compatibility with the entire existing Leapster Explorer Library, the curriculum covers spelling, phonics skills, mathematics, science, music, geography, and more.

The LeapPad also automatically adjusts learning so that kids can learn at their own pace while staying engaged. They can even practice writing with the included child-sized stylus.

LeapFrog also thought to include a way for parents to get into the act and monitor their child's learning progress with the Learning Path, LeapPad's online tool.  You can then choose to receive regular e-mail updates on your child's accomplishments, which provide insight into where your child may need additional support and give you new ideas for even more learning fun.

I think that LeapFrog really outdid themselves with the LeapPad learning tablet.  This kid-friendly tablet mimics the high-end electronics that parents use today and offers such a myriad of games, apps, eBooks and other educational resources which allows the LeapPad to grow right along with your child.  This toy is a learning powerhouse that definitely seems to be a terrific value for the money.