LUCKY DIAZ AND THE FAMILY JAM BAND “A POTLUCK” Like a well stocked jukebox being funneled (somehow) through a Lite Brite, Lucky Diaz’ music is colorful and childlike. But not at all square. Although maybe slightly cubist. The nine songs and spoken word bookends of “A Potluck” pair a mid-western […]
Legendary children’s author & illustrator Maurice Sendak has died. As a hopeful kid’s book author myself and as a fan of the outlandish in what we read together as a family, a hearty thank you from me to you, Mr. Sendak. You pushed boundaries and shattered expectations with your work […]
RENEE & JEREMY “A LITTLE LOVE” A covers album. Yeah, I know. I feel pretty much the same way. Seems like tiptoeing through the tulips for wrinkled dudes like Manilow, Stewart, and Sir Paul – a way to keep one hand inside the wallets of their, um, more mature audiences […]
I get oodles of emails every week from children’s musicians sending me links to songs and videos to sample and, potentially, write about here on OWTK. Just this morning I clicked on the new music video from Birdie Mendoza’s Birdie’s Playhouse and the Mouse, who was chillin’ in bed playing […]
It’ll help if you and/or your kids have or have had a memorable grandpa and/or if you and/or your kids have or have had a meaningful relationship with a feline. If one or more of those scenarios are true then you and your kids are going to fall right in love […]
We’re driving away from Paris, half way to Toulouse where we’d sleep before passing up, over, and through the Pyrenees & Andorra, as we hustled back to Barcelona to fly home. I glanced behind me to check on the kids only to discover the Mouse topless in her carseat, still strapped […]
Formerly known as Kid Junction, Mt. Laurel’s Kids Play Lounge offers Philly-area families a cool place to play indoors when the weather is poor and when the mercury soars towards triple digits (and, like it or not, those days are coming). The space is divided into a number of areas: […]
I find myself getting into the rhythm of this podcasting thing, from a playlist creation standpoint. I heart the ten songs that make up this month’s episode and hope you will as well. I present to you the May edition of the OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly featuring what I believe […]
