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• Readers' Choices
  Best Kids' Free Fun Spot Kiwanis Park Recreation Center 6111 South All-America Way, Tempe 480-350-5201 Best Kids' Fun-at-a-price Spot Castles-n-Coasters 9445 North Metro Parkway East 602-997-7575 Best Kids' Restaurant McDonald's several Valley locations More >>
• Best Alternative To Kiddy Music
  KBAQ-FM 89.5
  Nothing against Raffi, who surely means well, but his and other children's CDs are really not meant for adult ears. So tell your tiny tot to just grow up . . . because we happen to live in a city with a really topnotch classical radio station. Let your tyke listen to KBAQ. Often. Besides being a... More >>
• Best Place To Buy A Baby Gift
  Pure Style Kids
  We love the fact that Pure Style Kids is just across the breezeway from Three Dog Bakery -- a shop offering the ultimate indulgences for Fido. Those of you making the transition from Dog Mom to Real Mom will find it much easier after a trip through Pure Style Kids. This place is enough to cure... More >>
• Best Place To Rent Baby Gear
  Baby Boom Rentals
  How can one small person require so much stuff? Traveling with an infant requires more gear than a rock concert -- babies should have their own roadies to help them set up when they arrive for a vacation at Grandma's house. With Baby Boom Rentals, a visiting entourage can bring just the bare... More >>
• Best Hangout For The 18-and-under Crowd
  Ahwatukee Foothills Towne Center
  A small but hip section of this unassuming strip mall comes alive on Friday nights with teens and preteens sporting big shoes and baggy shorts. In addition to the 24-screen AMC theater with valet parking, there's Coffee Society for non-alcoholic, caffeinated refreshment. As You Wish can keep... More >>
• Best Video Arcade
  Video Roundup
  Whether you're partial to that sweet young thing from the '80s, Ms. Pac-Man, or you need to burn up a little testosterone with Virtua Cop 2, you can conquer the universe of your choice at Video Roundup, an independently owned video arcade that's been around for more than a decade. Novice players... More >>
• Best Toy Store
  Kidstop Learning Fun
  We chose Kidstop after rigorous scientific testing, which can be duplicated by anyone with access to a 3-year-old. Simply turn the child loose in any toy store while you shop for another kid's birthday present. If the range of merchandise is good enough and the staff is helpful enough, you'll... More >>
• Best Kids' Fun-at-a-price Spot
  Golfland/Sunsplash
  New attractions here have turned a fun but standard amusement park into the ultimate kiddy attraction. Golfland/Sunsplash is a one-stop entertainment center that will manage to please vanloads of multi-aged kids with different interests. Golfland, which is open all year and charges fees in the... More >>
• Best Skateboard Shop
  Cowtown Skateboards
  As soon as you walk in the door, you can tell that Cowtown Skateboards is run by a bunch of skateboard-loving purists. What gives us that notion? Ah, could it be the unavoidable wall-o-boards, covered from floor to ceiling in colorful, shiny new decks? Everything else in the store is secondary... More >>
• Best Restaurant To Take Kids
  Chevys Fresh Mex Restaurant
  Parents can get a bite in edgewise at Chevys because the kids will be happily occupied with an assortment of activities. Chevys goes beyond the standard crayons-and-placemat handouts, throwing in a ball of raw tortilla dough (sometimes the crayons are stuck in it) that doubles as Play-Doh when... More >>
• Best Place For A Kid's Birthday Party
  Ultimate Dive and Travel
  Never having another kid's birthday party at home, even if the stains did come out of the rug after the umpteenth cleaning? Looking for something more memorable and, God forbid, more meaningful than cardboard pizza and head-splitting video games at the usual locales? For little ones 10 and... More >>
• Best Kids' Clothes (New)
  This Little Piggy Wears Cotton
  This wonderful store with the awkward name (most patrons just call it "Piggy" and leave it at that) has the funkiest, hippest collection of clothes for the preschool and grade-school set. Grown women have been heard requesting some of the more fashion-forward girls' items in grown-up sizes, but... More >>
• Best Place To Take Kids On Summer Nights
  McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
  The summer heat demands that you keep the kids inside, hour after pent-up hour, day after frustrating day. Don't throw yourself under the wheels of a train. Just throw yourself near the train -- in this pretty park with a restored historic train depot, an antique carousel and a clock tower. On... More >>