8. An interactive toy for responding to audible sounds corresponding to a literary work having a plurality of non-triggering phrases, at least one triggering phrase, and a plurality of other words that are neither non-triggering phrases nor triggering phrases, the at least one triggering phrase being selectively placed among the plurality of non-triggering phrases to assist the toy in differentiating a triggering phrase from one or more non-triggering phrases, the toy comprising: a body having an interior cavity; a speech recognition unit at least partially positioned within the interior cavity of the body, the speech recognition unit configured to receive audible sounds corresponding to the literary work and, to identify a combination of at least one non-triggering phrase and at least one triggering phrase in the audible sounds corresponding to the literary work; a sound module at least partially positioned within the interior cavity of the body, the sound module having a controller with a plurality of audio messages stored therein for selective playback via a speaker, wherein the sound module plays back one or more messages if once the combination of the at least one non-triggering phrase and the at least one triggering phrase is received and identified by the speech recognition unit; and a user engagable switch for powering on the interactive toy.
8. An interactive toy for responding to audible sounds corresponding to a literary work having a plurality of non-triggering phrases, at least one triggering phrase, and a plurality of other words that are neither non-triggering phrases nor triggering phrases, the at least one triggering phrase being selectively placed among the plurality of non-triggering phrases to assist the toy in differentiating a triggering phrase from one or more non-triggering phrases, the toy comprising: a body having an interior cavity; a speech recognition unit at least partially positioned within the interior cavity of the body, the speech recognition unit configured to receive audible sounds corresponding to the literary work and, to identify a combination of at least one non-triggering phrase and at least one triggering phrase in the audible sounds corresponding to the literary work; a sound module at least partially positioned within the interior cavity of the body, the sound module having a controller with a plurality of audio messages stored therein for selective playback via a speaker, wherein the sound module plays back one or more messages if once the combination of the at least one non-triggering phrase and the at least one triggering phrase is received and identified by the speech recognition unit; and a user engagable switch for powering on the interactive toy. 10. The interactive toy of claim 8 , wherein the literary work is a book and the at least one non-triggering phrase and at least one triggering phrase correspond to text in the book, and wherein the at least one non-triggering phrase and at least one triggering phrase are stored in a memory in the toy.