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.

J. Countess/WireImage Mike Wood, the founder of the iconic LeapFrog toy company, died via physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland at the age of 72. Wood's brother, Tim, confirmed the news to The ...

The founder of an innovative toy company that taught millions of children how to read has died by physician assisted suicide. Mike Wood, the founder of LeapFrog Enterprises, was pronounced dead at ...

Mike Wood, who famously founded the LeapFrog toy company, died at the age of 72 His brother Tim said that he chose to die via physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland after being diagnosed with ...