There’s a fab discount on the Disney Music Player: Winnie The Pooh / Animal Stories  which is currently selling at £9.99 instead of £33.99. This isn’t the cheapest we’ve ever seen it – I bought it last summer for £3.99, but still, it’s a pretty good price none the less.

• Sing and read with Winnie the Pooh and the other Disney Characters

I reviewed the Disney Music Player last year, and had good things to say about it. A year down the line we still have it, and it’s still in working condition – although it does need batteries – and it’s still a firm favourite in these parts.

Each of these unique Disney Music Player sets combines a sturdy child’s CD player with a full colour 40-page storybook and four singalong CDs of the songs that kids know and love from playgroup, school and parties.

The themes included in the Disney Music Player range are Winnie the Pooh with a feast of stories about the Hundred Acre Wood and 28 favourite songs including Rumbly in my Tumbly and Hickory Dickory Dock. In the other book you’ll find 101 Dalmations, Finding Nemo, The Lion King and The Jungle Book.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD

I’ve mentioned before how my daughter loves Winnie the Pooh, and also loves music, so when I saw the Disney Music Player Story Books on sale a few months ago, I just had to buy it. When I bought it was over 80% off, so I didn’t read the details too closely and thought I’d bought a Winnie the Pooh book and song set.

When it arrived and not only was there a Winnie the Pooh book, four ‘CDs’ and a ‘CD Player’, which I expected, but there was a whole other book with 101 Dalmatians, Finding Nemo, The Lion King and The Jungle Book stories, with its own CDs and a CD Player which came as a huge surprise. I thought this was exceptional value for money.

Now, when I say ‘CDs’ and ‘CD player’, I’ve parenthesised them because they’re not really CDs or CD Players. They are round disks, each with a ridge on them that matches a button in the (not really a) CD Player (See the image above). What that means is that if you were to lose the CDs from, say, the Pooh books, you could still use the CDs from the other books to listen to the Pooh books, because the music itself is stored on the CD Player, not the CD.  This is great as they’re not going to get scratched or ruined. The CD Player itself can be removed from the book, which I find nice as my daughter likes carrying it around, and dancing with it.

The Winnie the Pooh book is actually nursery rhymes, some of which have been changed – like Piglet’s bridge is falling down – and divided into four sections: Morning Time, Play Time, Bed Time and Story Time.  They’re nice ‘chunks’ for singing along to and keeping a toddler’s attention.

The Disney Favourites are too long still for my 20-month old, but would be fine for a child that can handle a few pages of story time. The music on this serves as a backdrop to the story, rather than being a tune for singing to.

All in all, we love these. Would I pay £29.98 for it now that the sale is over? Yes, probably! There’s enough variety in it that you could read each story only once a week, and the illustrations are excellent for keeping little ones engaged, while the music just adds a whole new exciting element to it.

*singing* Hakuna matata...what a wonderful phrase....hakuna matata....'aint no passing craze...it's means NO WORRIES for the rest of your days.....

• Click HERE to sing-a-long-a-lion-king at Amazon

Teeth cleaning - it can be one of the epic battles of parenting right from toddlerhood to teenage-doom.  There's nothing worse than knowing the end of every day with your little one is going to end up in full-blown war over the toothbrush.

It's horrible for the kids and it's frustrating for us parents; we want our little treasures teeth to be strong, sparkly and white, we don't want to get lectured by the dentist but we don't want our children getting seriously upset every day, I mean what are we supposed to do...hold them in a headlock and just do it?  Or leave it until the next night and then the next one a-n-d the next one?!

Dismiss musical toothbrushes at your peril if the scenario I've just described sounds in any way familar to you!  If I'd tried them out sooner I would have saved myself a lot of heartache and tantrums (and they were just my tantrums!).

The Tooth Tunes toothbrush plays "Hakuna Matata" from the Lion King for one minute, it's perfectly designed for little three-year-old+ mouths and hands to encourage independence - "NO! I want to do it!!" are the magic words you want to hear.

Amazon have cut the price from its original £7.99 to £2.82 so you could a couple if you wanted to 'stock up' whilst they're a good price.

Happy brushing!

Thanks to oB765o over at HUKD!