Camille Harris's Baby on the Subway powerfully engages listeners with music of the sort children find irresistible and that parents find entertaining and pleasing to the ear as well. Key to the album's exceptional pull is Ms. Harris's keen awareness of what tickles young listeners' fancies and funny bones, a knack embodied by song after song containing memorable melodies and lyrics loaded with laugh-out-loud wordplay. The...Read more

Kare Strong and Josh Goforth are at it again, making beautiful music together! This collection of fourteen gorgeously-crafted original songs (penned and sung by Ms. Strong) takes listeners places alternately tender and plaintive, playful and majestic. As with their previous outing, multi-instrumentalist and producer Goforth's warm, accomplished playing and studio expertise are an essential part of what makes Beneath the C...Read more

With an abundance of warmth, charm, humor and humanity, Camping With Dads by Peter Alsop unfurls like a love letter to family. Throughout, we are treated to a delightful tapestry of amusing and emotionally resonant dialogue and songs that depict a camping trip joyfully populated by children, parents and grandparents who know and love each other well. The verbal interactions interspersed with the music are enormously engag...Read more

Connecting to Animals fuses memorable themes, catchy melodies and buoyant rhythms in songs that get youngsters on their feet, moving freely to the irresistible beats. Tropical House sounds, Reggae Beats and Calypso Rhythms abound, inducing an almost instantaneous feel-good state in young listeners. Moms and dads find the songs strongly appealing as well, an invaluable quality in children's music. The arrangements, while w...Read more

Ditto Kiddo by Stephen Michael Schwartz is a trove of nine wondrously engaging original songs that capture kids' imaginations with infectious rhythms, indelible melodies and ultra-catchy lyrics that tickle the funny bone! The album's opener exemplifies these qualities, leading with the head-turning, smile-sprouting refrain "Bitta Bow Bow, Bitta Bitta Bow Bow," before amusingly delving into the wonders of Alphabet Soup. Th...Read more

Randy & Dave are at it again, making music kids can't resist and that parents are tickled by as well. With Giggle and Burp Ballet, this dynamic duo's mirthful musical musings are on full display, weaving catchy melodies, buoyant rhythms and more laugh-out-loud lyrics per minute than any children's recording artist that comes to mind. Randy & Dave's remarkable capacity to tap into a child's sensibilities is part of their p...Read more

Adventures abound when Will Parker and the Make Believe Band take listeners on an exciting journey to a realm packed with humor, wordplay and wondrously entertaining music and lyrics. ImagineLand is in dire straits due to folks not using their imaginations like they used to, so the king and queen enlist the aid of a secret protector to help remedy the problem. An ever-expanding cast of characters comes our way amid story-...Read more

The fifteen songs on singer-songwriter Tracy Newman's stellar Sing With Me CD have the relaxed, playful feel of a gorgeous spring day on which nothing needs doing other than savoring each moment as it unfolds. The album opens with 'I Like to Walk My Dinosaur,' an irrepressibly fun tune that amply demonstrates Newman's flair for writing lyrics that tickle funny bones young and old. Among several other standouts in this reg...Read more