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Sophie the Giraffe wins Mother & Baby Gold
Sophie the Giraffe wins the Mother & Baby GOLD award 2011-2012 for best toy for baby's in the age 6-12 month. Sophie the Giraffe has won already several awards like the prestigious American ASTRA Award for Best Toy in September 2009! This Award again proves the unique qualities of Sophie the Giraffe. To learn more about this award check out here. Before Sophie the Giraffe was a finalist of the Mother & Baby Award 2009, Winner of the Mumsnet Best Award 2009 and 2009 nominee of the BACRA Award. Martha Steward recommends Sophie the Giraffe as the absolute baby "must have".
The story about Sophie the Giraffe
Once upon a time, a simple story...
The little giraffe was born on 25th May in the year 1961... Saint Sophie's day! In those days, the only animal toys available were farm animal or pet figures... that is why one day in France, a certain Monsieur RAMPEL, who had assimilated the rotational moulding of rubber as a toy-making concept, came up with the idea of designing a giraffe. Such an exotic wildlife figure would be a first on the market, and its size and shape would be ideal for a baby's small hands to grasp.
His workshop supervisor, Monsieur BRAULT, was asked to design and create a model, and then to adapt it in line with the production equipment. Sophie the Giraffe, who looked exactly the same then as she does today, went into production on a Thursday 25th May, whence her name. She was an immediate success. Young mothers straightaway saw that she was a must for their children... When the first signs of teething appear, Sophie the Giraffe helps baby stop crying! By simple word of mouth, the little giraffe's fame spread. From then on in Europe, generation upon generation of children were to love hearing Sophie squeak whenever they pressed her tummy or head!
VULLI, a company based in Rumilly in the Haute-Savoie region of France has continued to keep the jealously-guarded secret of how this wonder toy is made. SOPHIE is still "traditionally" produced to this day, a process that involves more than 14 manual operations. She is made from 100% natural rubber derived from the sap of the Hevea tree.