Best First Birthday Gifts

A one-year-old is usually a brand-new walker, which changes what a good gift looks like: things to push, stack and empty out, rather than things to sit and watch. Everything here is safety-scored and checked against recall data, and the age ranges below are the manufacturers' own.

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