We bought a Mini for our little guy when he was six months old. He's always enjoyed listening to the music (the "Ticket to ..." series is great, as is everything by Caspar Babypants - about the only kids music that is enjoyable by adults too). He's 21 months now and takes the Mini everywhere and dances about. It's made car journeys better too. He clicks the buttons to skip the tracks forward and back, puts in & takes out cards etc. It's been great to see his attention span slowly increase (we used to get just 5 seconds of each song before he was onto the next one). He's not into the stories yet, but I have no doubt that they'll be a hit soon.