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What's here at kidzmusic.com?
music and more!

Kidz Music Blogopottamus

The latest children's artist blogs are now available at Blogopottamus! Visit today to read what your favorites are up to.
A few of the most recent blog postings....

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Our Credo is:

We at Kidzmusic.com believe that in order to successfully promote the importance of Kidzmusic Artists and what they do, we must create and maintain an open dialog among the artists, critics, idealogues, parents and ultimately the child.

In the interest of moving forward, we have created the Kidzmusic Blogopottamus, which we hope will become an aggregation of the most important and meaningful blogs about kidz music, and we encourage all to either comment on our current blogs or feel free to contact us so that we may publish theirs.

We hope to hear from you

Porker P. Hargrove

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What's here at kidzmusic.com —
music and more!

Music reviews

Each month, John Wood and his icon buddies will share their pick o' the litter from The Flip Side. . .and beyond.

Go to the MUSIC REVIEWS PAGE to select a review to read.

For review consideration: If you would like your children's music CD or video to be considered for review, please send it to:

John Wood
Kidzmusic
4841 Whitsett Ave. #11
Valley Village, CA 91607

NOTE: Because of the high volume of CD's and videos submitted to us for review, we have established an optional $35 "hurry-up" listening fee to guarantee a timely listen. We will still listen to CD's submitted without the fee, but it will take us longer to get to them.

NAPPA music reviews

Also on this website, we have reviews of albums that received NAPPA Awards, which are part of an annual consumer awards program sponsored by the National Parenting Publications.

These reviews are grouped by category: lullaby, infant/toddler, early elementary (ages 4-8), and upper elementary (ages 9 and up).

The 2007 NAPPA Music Awards are on-line here! Please remember to buy them at Kidzmusic.com.

For more information on the NAPPA Awards, see parenthood.com.

Edutainment

The Edutainment page features valuable tips and experiences, shared monthly by experts in the fields of children's music, child behavior, parenting, etc. Educational and entertaining! And enjoyable!

The newest Edutainment article:

Eric Ode — MAKING THE GRADE: Adjusting School Visits for Various Grade Levels

Links to family-related websites

John Wood's column appears nationwide in numerous parenting magazines, listed on this page.

The Family Links page also has links to other websites with great resources for parents, such as children's literature.

Kidz Eye View of Travel

Being a parent doesn't mean an end to traveling. In fact, kids can be excellent travelers, if you know how to plan your trip.

The Kidz Eye page has recommendations of websites that are very helpful for tips on traveling with kids, and first-person articles about traveling with kids to exciting destinations such as Canada, Costa Rica, France, the Caribbean, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Washington D.C., Yellowstone, and Zion National Park.

The newest travel review:

Brenda Elwell's "Summer Travel Tips for Single Parents"

Storytellers

Telling stories isn't as simple as just reading a book aloud. You have to have good facial expression, hand motions, body language, voice inflection. . . hey, let's just ask some renowned story-tellers!

The Storytellers page has articles by some of the best children's story tellers, and it's all here for free!

'We Are One'
children's picture book & exploration cards

'We Are One' is a rhythmic tale that speaks to children and the child within us all of oneness. It is a reminder that no matter what our shape, size, color, nationality or race we are all indeed one.
www.weareone.us.com

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Dear John: Letters to Kidzmusic

If there's anything you want to know or say about children's music that isn't already on this website, send us an e-mail, and we'll try to answer it on our Letters page.

Who is kidzmusic.com?

Our resident expert, kept at hermetically-sealed room temperature, is John Wood. In 1972, John co-founded the performing group J.P. Nightingale — 8,000 performances later! He created and produced the annual Theatre Arts Festival For Youth (TAFFY) Festival for 10 years in Agoura, California, and co-hosted "Open House At The Hollywood Bowl" for 22 years . . . yada, yada, yada. In short, he's been around the proverbial block a few times.

John is the proud father of one son, Andrew, age 24 and a recording engineer in North Hollywood, California.

kidzmusic.com awards

The kidzmusic.com website has been rated with four stars by the ABC's of Parenting Directory, which provides websurfers with reviews and ratings of the absolute best websites of interest to families and parents-to-be.

The kidzmusic.com website has been selected as one of the Net's finest informative sites and is included in StudyWeb®'s listing of educational links. StudyWeb has educational resources for students and teachers. You can find us in their Professional Development:Teaching Resources:Collaborative Activities:Kindergarten:Music section.