Music
That’s What Little Girls are Made of
That's Rebecca Pidgeon with the opening from her reverie, "Under the Table." It's on a new CD called That's What Little Girls are Made of.
The Broadway Kids’ “Hey! Mr. D.J.”
That’s the Broadway Kids with John Lennon’s “Imagine” on a new collection, called “Hey Mr. DJ!”
“Seussical” Review
That’s David Shiner as the Cat in the Hat, along with the chorus line from the musical, “Seussical,” which made its appearance on Broadway a couple of years ago and has now arrived in CD form.
Willoughby and the Professor
That’s the Professor and his faithful side-kick, Willoughby, getting ready to pucker space and send a box full of cockroaches into the Arabian desert, as part of the Professor’s latest and grandest noble experiment...
Listen to the Storyteller
That’s Winton Marsalis with the opening from the story, “The Fiddler and the the Dancin’ Witch,” about a little boy named Simeon who’d rather play his father’s magic fiddle than almost anything else.
This Land is Your Land
You’re hearing Danny Glover reading from the Langston Hughes poem, “The Kids In School With Me.”
Little Happy Campers
That’s the title song for “Little Happy Campers, The Girl Scouts Greatest Hits,” volume 6, from Melinda Carroll and Legend Productions in Hawaii.
African Playground
That’s the Ugandan singer, Samite, with the beginning of a song about a teenager who is starting feel like he should be leaving childish things and jumping up to manhood.
The Wild Things Meet E.T.
You’re hearing a little from Randolph Wolf’s ballet music for Maurice Sendak’s 1963 Caldecott-award-winning, Where the Wild Things Are.
James Galway’s Music for Children
There’s far too little in the world of children’s music that is gentle, soothing, and yet demanding and sophisticated.