Folk singer-songwriter Ellis Paul's first kids' album features earnest yet often playful tunes about childhood innocence and our drive to both preserve and make good on it it in a challenging world. Paul may have set out to make an album for children, but what he came up with was a blend of songs for and about families, with pinwheels and stars inside of apples for the kids and haunting songs like "9 months to fix the world" for those of us privileged enough to spend our time watching them grow. Pick it up on CD or as an MP3 download from Amazon.com.

Ellis Paul doesn't really have much of his kids' stuff up on YouTube, so here's one of his better-known folk songs in a live performance.



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