"My 2 year old has listened to this CD since just a few months old and he loves it! He sings along with Mahna-mahna and grooves to the Charlie Brown theme song. I've bought both CDs for friends and"... (read full reviews)
"The band They Might Be Giants are elder statesmen of what has sometimes been called "geek rock." The band has been recording albums for close to 20 years, and for most of that time they aimed their"... (read full reviews)
"Family Dance is billed as being by "Dan Zanes and Friends." By inserting the "and Friends" part in there, the listener gets the impression that he or she, too, could gather their own friends round the"... (read full reviews)
"My infant daughter and I love this CD. There are so many great sing-a-long songs. They're fun to sing and easy to remember. Perfect for long car rides and nice bedtime lullabies too. I highly"... (read full reviews)
"The short review of Catch That Train!, Dan Zanes’ 2006 release and his fifth album specifically for kids and families is that it's like his previous family music album, but more so -- more musically"... (read full reviews)
"I initially approached Frances England's 2006 debut album Fascinating
Creatures as if I was playing a game of "spot-the-influence." Did I hear Elizabeth Mitchell (who recorded a low-key and lo-fi"... (read full reviews)
"Elizabeth Mitchell helped found the rock band Ida with her husband Daniel Littleton. Unlike children's artists who have given up their "adult" careers or artists like They Might Be Giants, who are now"... (read full reviews)
"An increasingly popular approach to recording kids' CDs is packaging the CD with a book. In some cases, like Philadelphia Chickens and Rhinoceros Tap from Sandra Boynton or Bed, Bed, Bed by They Might"... (read full reviews)
"The great risk in going back and listening to an artist's early work is that you won't like it as much as the later work that drew you to the artist in the first place, thereby also diminishing your"... (read full reviews)
"Originally released in 1961, Sam Hinton's Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts is a classic beloved by many families. In August, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album (for the first time on CD)"... (read full reviews)
"Not Naptime, the title of the 2003 album from Chicago-based Justin Roberts is somewhat misleading. This album, Roberts' third for kids, is probably his most down-tempo, the one most I'd most likely"... (read full reviews)
"With its stylized cover photo of San Francisco, little about the packaging of George Winston's 1996 album Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi suggests "kids music." Indeed, we had this in our"... (read full reviews)
"Rocket Ship Beach was the first Dan Zanes album I ever heard. This was maybe 4 years ago or so. I liked it, but it didn't quite grab me at the time the way his 3 subsequent albums did. In going back"... (read full reviews)