Without a clear winner in this year's toy contest, the race remains wide open for a share of the $23

Without a clear winner in this year's toy contest, the race remains wide open for a share of the $23 billion that Americans are expec-ted to spend this year on nonvideo game toys. The real question is who determines what's hot? The parents who buy toys or the children who will be playing with them? Below, the experts weigh in on which toys are good for kids. At right, kids tell us which toys were, well, fun. To get kids' responses, the Washington Post took toys to Washington, D.C.-area schools for hands-on testing. Kids ranked each toy on a scale of 1 (awful) to 10 (great).