There are a number of reasons you should download and listen to this free Halloween Kid’s Music Podcast, but #1 on the list is the rare chance to hear me speak in an *airquotes* vampire voice. It is pretty funny, I think, because it is pretty ridiculous. Let’s just say […]
Add another fine publication to the list of those who’ve mistaken me for a professional writer! Read me every month (or so) on Red Tricycle New York and (I think, from time to time) on the other city sites on the Red Tri network. I love this one in particular […]
Halloween 2012 is almost here. Okay, not really. But the deals on costumes and accessories might be too good to pass up. The savings on Halloween digs might be too attractive to turn away from even though it’s 350+ days in advance of the next time it’ll be acceptable to […]
I posted this last year at this time and I’ll likely keep doing so every late-October until the end of time. Or the end of OWTK. Whichever comes first. Justin Roberts’ “Trick or Treat” is, simply put, the best Halloween song ever. Obviously I mean it, I wrote that exact […]
I’m all for recycling, I am, but far too many of the new Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD sets include stories that were just used in recent collections. This rapid recycling trend has left me mostly ho-hum when Scholastic packages arrive at my front door. But what to my wondering eyes […]
Other than Barney Saltzberg, there’s not a whole lot of quality crossover between the worlds of kid’s lit and kid’s music. Little did I know, when I reviewed his fantastic debut kid’s book A Dog is a Dog, that author Stephen Shaskan is also a children’s recording artist. His songs, […]
The first sound we hear from “Love, Cake & Monsters”, the forthcoming and highly anticipated new release from PKRS, is the seasonally appropriate and pointedly-titled tune “Halloween”. The dramatic, not-at-all-spooky holiday number features a 53-piece Macedonian orchestra which sounds terrific. But I’m less impressed with the song frankly – which […]
I’d never made a scarecrow until this afternoon. ***** Over breakfast on Saturday morning I sprung on the girls (and the Mrs, who quickly gave me one of those raised eyebrows) that on Monday, when the Bear would be off from school and the Mrs. home skipping work for a mental […]
