Menlo Park, CA — June 13, 2002 - The Webby Awards, the leading international honors for websites, has nominated The Dr. Spock Company's site, www.drSpock.com, for a 2002 Webby Award in the Best Health Website category.

Hailed by The Wall Street Journal as a celebration of "sites that pave important paths to the Internet's next phase," the Webby Awards are determined by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a diverse, 350-person organization whose membership includes film director Francis Ford Coppola, musicians David Bowie and Beck, cyberguru Esther Dyson, CEO of Real Networks Rob Glaser, celebrity chef Julia Child, and Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry Barlow.

"The Webby Awards showcase the best of what the Internet has to offer in terms of innovation, creativity, and originality," said Maya Draisin, Executive Director of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. "The Dr. Spock Company's nomination for a Webby Award is a testament to its great contributions in pushing the Internet envelope."

"It is an honor for The Dr. Spock Company to be nominated for a Webby in the health arena," said Doug Lee, president and CEO of The Dr. Spock Company. "This puts us among the best of the best on the Net in one of the largest and fastest growing category on the web. It's a real validation for our efforts to provide parents with timely, expert advice in books, on television, and on the Web 24 hours a day."

The Sixth Annual Webby Awards will take placer on Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at San Francisco's magnificent Palace of the Legion of Honor. As a nominee for a Webby Award, www.drSpock.com is also eligible to win a People's Voice Award. Voting is open to the public until June 7th at www.webbywards.com/peoplesvoice/. People's Voice Award winners will be announced on www.webbyawards.com during the Webby Awards Ceremony on June 18, 2002.

About The Dr. Spock Company
The Dr. Spock Company is the trusted source for the latest expert advice, information, and inspiration on raising happy, healthy children. The company blends the timeless philosophies of world-renowned pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock with up-to-date parenting information from leading authorities in parenting and children's health, delivering its expert information via print, broadcast, and online media. The Dr. Spock Company, which is backed by Zesiger Capital Group LLC and Northcoast Management LLC, is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.