For the Kids

by Various Artists

For ages 1-6 years

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This compilation album (and its companion second and third volumes) plays like a greatest hits of kid music. A lot of the songs themselves - "Mahna Mahna," "It's Alright to Cry" - will take you right back to your own childhood, but the artists are very much of your little one's era - Cake, Barenaked Ladies, and the like. (We are especially grateful to Barenaked Ladies for weaving the word "linoleum" so brilliantly into a song about letters!) And the Muppet Show flashbacks are particularly endearing for us, as is the sight of our little heads bobbing up and down to "Mahna Mahna" like the puppet rockers of the 1970s. And we must warn you - listening to Sarah McLachlan's "The Rainbow Connection" as a parent gives it a whole new angle. Fumble around for the sunglasses and the explanations as the sentimental tears well up when you hear and sweetly imagine your little one singing along with Kermit.

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Review provided by The Savvy Source.