This is the wood frog, the first of the New York amphibians to make an appearance each year. Wood frogs hibernate in the leaf litter of the forest floor, usually just a few inches below the surface.

His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.

The young father, worried his struggles with reading would continue as he got older, began working on an innovative prototype that would later become a best-selling toy across the US.