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
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. As a freelance writer and editor, Lynne is currently working in the arts and family entertainment fields.
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