Parents' Choice Awards : Audio : Music
Close to the Sun: Songs of the Earth and Beyond for Children
1998 Music
Ages: 6 - 12 yrs.
Performed By: Peggy Eyres
Producer: Quercus Music
CD Price: $15.98
Tape Price: $10.98
Review:
Folk singer Peggy Eyres succeeds in making educational songs lyrically polished
and musical as she sings about the fascinating characteristics of such fauna as
sand skunks, T-Rex, geese and geckos ("Animalia" ) and of the usefulness of such
flora as cotton, trees, oranges and carrots ("Plant Presents"). She turns the
food chain concept into light-hearted poetry ("Who's Eating Who?") and cleverly
delineates the solar system ("Polemic Planetary Perturbation"). Other well-crafted,
wells-sung songs are about the weather, good health habits, mountain climbing
and an enduring, symbolic "Grandmother Tree."
Lynne Heffley ©1998 Parents' Choice
A long-time Parents' Choice music critic, Lynne was a staff writer for 25 years at the Los Angeles Times where she established and maintained the paper's first weekly children's arts and entertainment beat and was a general arts reporter. Now a freelance writer, Lynne works in the areas of non-profit communications, the arts and family entertainment (specializing in children's theater, music, audio books and book illustration). In her spare time, when she's not reading, Lynne is likely to be found strumming American Songbook standards and Tin Pan Alley novelty songs on one of her seven ukuleles.
