Parents & kids can now share their beloved brand with the Webkinz Friends game on Facebook! TORONTO, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Ganz, creator of Webkinz World™, the original kids' online world, is excited ...

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Many school-age kids have long since traded in their rocking horses and jump ropes for digital play. Commentator David Kushner describes why he thinks the Webkinz Web site is preparing children for ...

The phone calls begin to pick up in early afternoon, after school gets out. Often, it’s kids. But sometimes, say the managers of The Wishing Well in Cherry Hill, N.J., parents are among the 20 to 40 ...

Claim: Children's Webkinz are being murdered online. My children came home from school today, and all the talk in first and second grade was of some kind of webkinz malware. A black, red or yellow box ...

Ten-year-old Katie Weinbach perches on the edge of a yellow couch. A wireless laptop sits in front of her on a coffee table. A menagerie of stuffed animals with names like Fifi, Fufu, Coco and Lulu ...

Children tend and care for their Webkinz avatars much like adults coddle Sims. * Screenshot: Courtesy of Jacob Ogles * The latest toy craze in North America are stuffed animals called Webkinz that ...

Blackie looks like any other panda, only he’s much smaller. He eats, he sleeps — and he even wears hats and sweaters — like any good stuffed animal should. But what makes Blackie special is the power ...