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If your child is just starting daycare or school this year or if last year's lunch bag is worse for wear, you may be in the market for a kid-sized, kid-friendly lunch bag. We recommend letting your child pick it out - it's fun and maybe they'll have a stronger attachment to it and not leave it on as many park benches. (Maybe.) Here are six companies we think have some of the cutest lunch bags for young kids out there:

• Built NY: Most of their designs are colorful and kid-friendly but, come on, how cute are their new animal bag designs? Three animals to choose from. ($20)

• Dabbawalla: More than a dozen designs made from "eco sponge." ($30)

• So Young Mother: Slightly more sophisticated designs but still sweet enough to appeal to kids; lunch boxes ($30) and slightly smaller cooler bags ($28) both with optional straps.

• SugarBooger: Huge selection of more structured totes ($20) or brown bag shaped sacks ($15.50) with designs to please very young kids as well as slightly less childish designs for middle schoolers.

• Skip Hop: They've added new animals to their Zoo Lunchies line (now a menagerie of 10) and they just keep bringing on the cute. ($14)

• Wildkins: Shaped like traditional lunch boxes, but softer to fit in a backpack. Almost 20 designs. ($17)