Sophie the Giraffe - Natural Rubber Baby Teething Squeaky Toy by Vulli

Sophie the Giraffe from France - A Natural Rubber Baby Teething Squeaky Toy by Vulli
Sophie the Giraffe must be the most talked about baby toy around. Kids, parents celebrities and babies go nuts over this absolutely adorable squeeking teething toy.

Sophie the Giraffe is was born in 1961 to a French Company called Vulli. Since then Sophie has become a legend with over 600 000 Sophie natural baby teething toys sold per year in France alone!

Sophie Giraffe is made in the French Alps from natural rubber and non-toxic, baby safe paints. Natural rubber is phthalate free and is totally safe for your baby to explore with all their senses.

Sophie is designed to stimulate your baby's senses and soothe sore, teething gums. Sophie is soft, light weight with a lot of places for little baby hands to grab on to. This little giraffe is one of the best newborn baby gifts around for baby.

'This toy is like candy for babies'

In France, Sophie the giraffe has been de rigueur for decades. Now Sophie is in Canada
Excerpts from an article about Sophie published in the Globe and Mail, Style Section Saturday December 16th, 2006

SHAWNA WAGMAN
Special to The Globe and Mail

Her skinny neck has been clasped in the chubby, slippery fists of French babies since 1961. Her bumpy head and flexible feet have soothed millions of sore little gums. You might say she's become Hollywood's most homely It Girl. She's a 17-centimetre rubber giraffe named Sophie. And Sophie is coming to a drooling Canadian kid near you....

The genteel giraffe is fashioned out of natural rubber and non-toxic paint so it's safe and soft. Most important: Babies adore Sophie.

"People come in the store saying they've heard this toy is like candy for babies." She began selling Sophie in May and it has been flying out the door ever since.

Aside from making a happy little squeak when squeezed, the spotted giraffe does little more than stare blankly, smile sweetly and smell faintly of vanilla. So what makes Sophie the Giraffe such a phenomenon?

Entrepreneurial mom Jane Wood says part of the appeal is in Sophie's retro look. She was living in Britain when she first met Sophie the Giraffe. Her fourth child got it as a gift from friends who were visiting France, where, she discovered, the giraffe is legendary. "Over there, it's a standard thing," Wood says. "If you have a baby, you have a Sophie."

Celebrity moms and wannabes get their Sophies in stylish gift baskets. "Kate Hudson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Debra Messing -- you name it, they all have one,"
"It's like magic,"...
"It becomes every baby's favourite toy."

You don't have to be rich and famous to test out that claim. Less than 20 bucks buys your favourite bambino his or her very Sophie the Giraffe.

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