The 38 favorites and 72 minutes of hard-to-beat musical arrangements on Children’s Songs: A Collection of Childhood Favorites will please you and your child. Once again Susie Tallman delights with a variety of languages and her first-rate voice. Her friends chime in with a nice blend of back up vocals and instruments including the organ, train whistles, banjo and accordion. The top draw from my viewpoint is the wide variety of styles including songs from France, Spain, Ireland, England, and others and from many genres including country, rock, rap, and jazz.

Susie Tallman's voice is emotional without going overboard, her song choices represent the best of traditional favorites, and the CD art delights.

Our favorite tracks were “Pop Goes the Weasel,” “Little Peter Rabbit,” and “Monkeys on the Bed,” all for the creative, fun and unusual arrangements, and “When the Saints Go Marching In."

Children’s Songs: A Collection of Childhood Favorites was a winner of the Oppenheim Portfolio Gold Award. You can pick it up on Amazon.com for $11.99. - Karen