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    There's a review of the Snow White CD in the latest Digital Audio.
    Apparently it is very good, includes tracks that were cut from
    the film, and has a lot of background information added.
    
    					Steve

    
    Woa.  There already *are* children's cds, so how could a company
    that hasn't released their children's cds be the first?
    
    Windham Hill has already released a series of cds for children,
    such as:
    
    Merryl Streep and George Winston "The Velveteen Rabbit"
    Jack Nicholson and Bobby McFerrin (I don't remember the title)
    
    								-mr. bill

    
    No, those are children's CDs meant for adults...
    
    
    			:-)   :-)  8^)
                                   
    Hey, I'm just reporting what the paper said.... you're right, I've
    seen and heard those....(what *was* that Jack Nicholson one?)

        Well, recently I saw a Raffi CD.  Unless I mispelled his name,
        Raffi is a writer and performer of songs for children. 
        
        [I saw it while browsing in Record Town in Shopper's World in
        Framingham.  I stopped in while waiting for someone to shop for
        clothes, but didn't consider purchasing anything because of the
        prices.  Most CDs were $16.99, a $2.00 off special brought
        prices to the range of several other nearby, but the special
        only applied for a few discs.] 
        
        					B.J.

    
    Re :-.4
    
    I think that Raffi is a writer and performer of songs for children
    regardless of whether you misspelled his name!!
    
    8^)
    
    What do you parents out there feel about CDs for kids?  I wouldn't
    trust my 2-year-old to run my player, but I plan to give her a cassette
    player for Christmas this year.  I can tape records just as easily
    as CDs for her use (why give her the original?  let her kill a tape,
    then make another copy).  What do you think?
    
    P.S.  My daughter dances uncontrollably evrytime I put on my CD
    of "Graceland".  My wife plays it a few times a day to keep her
    occupied!

 re .5 

>    What do you parents out there feel about CDs for kids?  I wouldn't
>    trust my 2-year-old to run my player, but I plan to give her a cassette
>    player for Christmas this year.  I can tape records just as easily
>    as CDs for her use (why give her the original?  let her kill a tape,
>    then make another copy).  What do you think?
    
My kids are a little older (6 + 8) and they've been playing with their
own little cassette player/recorder for two Christmas's now and they really
love it. When I was shopping for theirs I saw many that seemed to be
designed for little untrained fingers.

So everything they like from Christmas and Disney type songs to any current
Popular stuff I record for them and they have a ball !

Just watch out kids like to sneak up on you when you least expect it
with the recorder ON ! Hah, GOTCHA they say ! :-)

Peter.

    My four year old daughter has been turning on the TV, setting the
    right channel, turning on the VCR and putting in tapes since she
    was 2. Right now she can handle anything on the stereo as well,
    but I do not let her put on records.
    
    I do let her put on CDs because they are relatively indestructible
    and the playback device is not subject to damage from little fingers.
    She even holds the CDs by the edges!
    
    I can't wait for more children's stuff! She has Peter & the Wolf
    and the Nutcracker Suite and loves them. She wants Mary Poppins
    and Cinderella badly. I would also like to get Song of the South
    soundtrack.

    There is a great CD out by The King's Singers for kids. I don't
    recall the exact title or company but a perusal of a Swanns(sp?)
    should produce the appropriate details.
    
    			-Abdul-
    

     Both CBS and RCA compact disc clubs have been offering children's
    CD's (at least 1/2 dozen by Raffi, amongst others) for several months.
    
     I'd second .8's advice about consulting a Schwann catalog for overall
    availability of CD's for kids. As I recall, there's a section devoted
    to children's recordings.
    
    
    
                                     Ken
    

    RE .2 and .3 -- I think the other Windham Hill release is Jeremy Irons
    (not Jack Nicholson) and Bobby McFerrin doing "The Steadfast Tin Soldier."

							-- Nina

RE .10 [RE .2 and .3] -- Oops, I was wrong.  "The Steadfast Tin Soldier"
is narrated by Jeremy Irons with music by Mark Isham.  Jack Nicholson
and Bobby McFerrin do "The Elephant's Child."
							-- Nina