OWTK did it. We actually made it out to a kid’s music event. With all the aches, pains and sickness streaking through our home over the past few months our presence at Saturday’s Justin Roberts concert was, itself, a minor miracle. One that nearly didn’t happen. We had to make […]
Love it, love it, love it. I absolutely love the idea of a free song download card as Halloween treat. The Boston-based toddler rock outfit Debbie and Friends have smashed a home run with this idea. I’ve printed the band’s free song download cards and will be stapling/taping one to […]
The man’s music already altered my life once. It’d be greedy to expect it to do it again. I was 17 (half of my current age) when “Gentlemen” entered my life. I saw the video for “Debonair” once and that was enough to get The Afghan Whigs major label debut […]
Robbie Schaefer “Fits Right In” Robbie Schaefer is maybe best known as the Music Director of, and on-air personality for, XM Radio’s Kids Place Live. Did you know that he’s also an established musician and songwriter for both kids and adults? While his 2006 all-ages debut CD, “Songs For Kids […]
FLANNERY BROTHERS “THE NEW EXPLORERS CLUB” The Sound: Giddy, acoustic pop-rock. In the Cafeteria, They Sit With: Dog on Fleas, Todd Wees, Ratboy Jr. Best Moments: Relying on nothing more than a barely mic-ed ukulele strum, some whistling, and the expansive wonder of the blue sea, “Sea Glass” glistens. The […]
BEAUTIFUL OOPS by Barney Saltzberg A lovely little board book determined to forever end the tantrum over ripped paper, misspelled words or stains on a masterpiece-in-progress. Saltzberg (Good Egg, Crazy Hair Day) gives kids not only ideas for how to transform an Oops into a Wow, but also the a-okay […]
THE SQUEEGEES “RULES OF THE ROAD” Going on the theory that it’s never too early to prep your children for their driver’s exam, The Squeegees “Rules of the Road” presents the basics of vehicular etiquette (“yellow yellow yellow means slow slow slow”) alongside some less common (but just as important) […]
Vera’s Halloween by Vera Rosenberry A story of Halloween, yes, but more globally (and importantly) one of getting lost and of neighborly kindness – with a serene ending that just nails it. What makes Vera’s Halloween work so well is the lack of emotion in the writing. That may sound […]
