Listener’s are likely to walk around singing Tur-tley-lee-hee-hee Turtl-hoo-ooh around the house, a fun song that describes a turtle seen at the library. Other songs like “Under the Moon” take a walk with an elephant and meet up with an owl and kangaroo or make kids feel weird in the “Hobbly Dobbly House” where everything is odd are fun to sing to also.

Reviewed by Sheri Harper

Music Box
Mary Kaye
CDbaby.com
ISBN: 884501132640, $15

Mary Kaye’s new music CD Music Box is a real hoo-oot-ooh-ooh. The songs are written for children age preschool through third grade and feature many animals and their voices. Mary Kaye is an award-winning musician played on many English-language radio shows worldwide. Her husky voice and folksy style are very easy on the ear. Her band features guitar, drums and many acoustical instruments that capture the interest of the listener young and old.

Her song “Bug” immediately caught my attention. It placed me into the life of a bug and how children interact with them. It captures children’s dislike of bugs and their desire to place them in containers and feed them and watch them crawl around with the result that they suffocate them. Bug captures both points of view in a light-hearted way with a catchy tune that makes you want to bop your head.

Listener’s are likely to walk around singing Tur-tley-lee-hee-hee Turtl-hoo-ooh around the house, a fun song that describes a turtle seen at the library. Other songs like “Under the Moon” take a walk with an elephant and meet up with an owl and kangaroo or make kids feel weird in the “Hobbly Dobbly House” where everything is odd are fun to sing to also.

Songs like Robbie Robot, Hot Chocolate Fairy and Sea Water capture children’s imagination by bringing objects to life. The Hot Chocolate Fairy is warm and chocolatey, Sea Water wants more water and she waves and waves.

The concluding song “Sleepy Land” shows clearly that this is a CD that children will like to go to sleep listening to because it has a nice somnolent quality. After relaxing and entering a fantasy land, children will likely sleep well.

Overall, Music Box is a CD filled with child friendly creative songs that delight the ear. Full of fun sounds that animals make or that occur in nature, children will have fun listening and dancing to it.

About the reviewer: Sheri Fresonke Harper is a poet and writer. She's been published in many small journals and is working on her second science fiction novel. See www.sfharper.com