That’s the Montreal Ornithological Orchestra with a chorus of goldfinches, geese, cuckoos, crows, larks, loons, orioles, robins, swallows, tanagers, and turtle doves with a version of an old holiday favorite that’s sure to put a chirp in your step.
That’s Michelle, with two jokes from her stand-up routine on a CD called The Best of Kid Komedy.
You’re hearing Dame Judi Dench reading from A. A. Milne’s “Wind on the Hill,” from a recent CD called “Kids’ Stuff. ”
That’s the Moonlighters with part of their “Resophonic Lullaby,” from a new CD called “American Lullaby — Folk, Country, Gospel & Old-Timey Bedtime Songs.”
You’re hearing part of the sung version of John Lithgow’s bouyant new children’s book, I’m a Manatee, with illustrations by Ard Hoyt.
You may think you’re in a 1940s, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon” time warp, but it’s really the talented Grammy-award winning duo of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, on their new CD for young people called Bon Appetit! — Musical Food Fun.
That’s the extraordinary South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (see-bone-GEE-lay koo-MAH-low) with the traditional Zulu lullaby, “Thula Mama.” It’s on a new CD called Dreamland — World Lullabies and Soothing Songs.
This song comes from Lullabies and Children’s Songs, a CD from UNESCO; it’s part of their series of recordings called “Listening to the World.”
That’s Ella Jenkins, one of this country’s great folksingers for young people, with a nursery rhyme especially for Labor Day.
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.