Featured Brand: Fanny's Play House Inc.

This company was started in 1973 by Fanny Wong, who had come to the U.S. for college and stayed on after graduation.  She wanted to be a "stay-at-home" mom for her first born son after working almost constantly after he was born.  She had enjoyed Sesame Street very much, while watching with her 5 year old, and admired Jim Henson's puppets.  She made 5 puppets, walked the streets of New York with a shopping bag and a business was born (in a two room apartment).   Small shop owners started to give her ideas of what they would like to carry, and the line was slowly expanded.  By the time her second son was born in 1977, she had found a niche for her good quality products:  the early childhood school market.