About Us
At Battat Education, we create toys that build key developmental skills and celebrate the joy of play. Made with care and based on research, our toys come with learning materials to help parents nurture their little one’s natural love for learning.
We are serious about fun! Our expert-backed toys nurture kids’ growing minds while keeping giggles coming. Bright, colorful, and full of cute characters, they keep kiddos engaged while helping them develop 7 key skills: Cognitive, Fine Motor, Gross Motor, STEM, Speech and Language, Creativity & Imagination, and Social & Emotional skills.
We celebrate each child’s unique strengths and learning styles, which is why our toys can be easily adapted to diverse developmental stages. This also means that kids of different ages or skill sets can play together using our toys!
Not sure where to start? Don’t worry: all our toys come with a play guide full of educational activities, so you and your kiddo can focus on the fun.
Meet The Team
Head Toy Designer
Young believes that toys are an art form for children—words she’s lived by throughout her 20+ year career as a toy designer. After graduating with a BFA in Toy Design and creating a wide variety of toys, she discovered that her true passion lies in facilitating fun, enriching, and educational play experiences for children—and helping guide parents through it. This realization led her to Battat Education, where she develops our toys from ideation to production. She enjoys Battat Education’s long design process, which includes extensive research, improving designs with Pegah, and playing with the products herself, as it results in meaningful toys she can be proud of.
Head Toy Designer
Young believes that toys are an art form for children—words she’s lived by throughout her 20+ year career as a toy designer. After graduating with a BFA in Toy Design and creating a wide variety of toys, she discovered that her true passion lies in facilitating fun, enriching, and educational play experiences for children—and helping guide parents through it. This realization led her to Battat Education, where she develops our toys from ideation to production. She enjoys Battat Education’s long design process, which includes extensive research, improving designs with Pegah, and playing with the products herself, as it results in meaningful toys she can be proud of.
Child Development Specialist
Full of knowledge on all things child development, Pegah contributes her expertise to every piece of the Battat Education pie—from collaborating with designers on toy development to providing educational activities for our play guides! In addition to holding an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Communication Science and Disorders, Pegah has extensive experience working with kids. She has worked as a speech therapist with hearing-impaired children as well as an educational psychologist with refugee children. Pegah believes that toys are the best tools for teaching complicated concepts to kids , inspiring her to join the Battat Education team. Motivated to help kids learn and laugh, Pegah continues to grow her knowledge to make Battat Education the best it can be!
Child Development Specialist
Full of knowledge on all things child development, Pegah contributes her expertise to every piece of the Battat Education pie—from collaborating with designers on toy development to providing educational activities for our play guides! In addition to holding an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Communication Science and Disorders, Pegah has extensive experience working with kids. She has worked as a speech therapist with hearing-impaired children as well as an educational psychologist with refugee children. Pegah believes that toys are the best tools for teaching complicated concepts to kids , inspiring her to join the Battat Education team. Motivated to help kids learn and laugh, Pegah continues to grow her knowledge to make Battat Education the best it can be!
Toy Designer & Illustrator
Having always been a child at heart, Cristin channeled her creative talents and passion for art into a career in toy design. After graduating with a BFA in Illustration, she acquired another BFA in Toy Design to gain the skills and knowledge she would need to design engaging and unique toys! In her creative process, she thoughtfully considers a range of factors, including a toy’s safety, look, its appeal to children, and its educational function. She is motivated to create toys that help kids learn, discover, and have tons of fun—just like they helped her when she was a little one!
Toy Designer & Illustrator
Having always been a child at heart, Cristin channeled her creative talents and passion for art into a career in toy design. After graduating with a BFA in Illustration, she acquired another BFA in Toy Design to gain the skills and knowledge she would need to design engaging and unique toys! In her creative process, she thoughtfully considers a range of factors, including a toy’s safety, look, its appeal to children, and its educational function. She is motivated to create toys that help kids learn, discover, and have tons of fun—just like they helped her when she was a little one!
Guest Story Writer
Susan Hughes is a freelance editor and the award-winning writer of more than 30 children’s books, including picture books, chapter books, young adult novels, non-fiction for all ages, a non-fiction graphic novel, and occasionally, Battat Education storybooks! Her books have received multiple nominations for the Forest of Reading awards, the TD Children’s Literature Awards, and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Literature.
Guest Story Writer
Susan Hughes is a freelance editor and the award-winning writer of more than 30 children’s books, including picture books, chapter books, young adult novels, non-fiction for all ages, a non-fiction graphic novel, and occasionally, Battat Education storybooks! Her books have received multiple nominations for the Forest of Reading awards, the TD Children’s Literature Awards, and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Literature.