Vtech Count and Sing Animal Train

Vtech's power update on the traditional pull toy, this model offers features that make it a long-time favourite in the toybox. Although it is recommended for children from 18 months of age and up, the push-button sounds make it attractive even to younger children, who can enjoy pressing on the individual animals and listening to what they say. It may also still hold interest for older children who no longer delight in merely pulling a train behind them on their adventures, but are genuinely fascinated by the information about the little animals and their flute, keyboard, and trumpet.

The cars of the train can be detached and re-arranged as well, and are recognised when they are re-attached, reinforcing language learning with names of animals and musical instruments. The favourite foods of the animals are also a part of the informative little audio clips, as are five sing-along songs and a short related quiz run by Cody (the blue bear sitting in the locomotive), to test knowledge of the model's audio content. Be aware that while certain shop sites show pictures of a product with 4 cargo cars, labelled with proper names of the characters sitting inside, the actual product has 3 cargo cars, labelled with the names of the instruments they are holding.