When released a handful of cassettes of in 1997, she had no idea that the album would launch her almost immediately into the upper echelon of American music performers. These songs were developed in day care classes and summer camp workshops with pre-school children, and it's clear that 's interaction with her young students helped to shape the recordings. Movement and imagination play such a large role in 's music that it's hard to imagine a roomful of children being able to sit still through them. sets them to stomping and flattening buildings in the chorus and grazing peacefully in the verses. is an infectious call-and-response romp about the joys of rattling percussive shakers. may be the most inspiring cleanup song since 's target audience is children below seven years of age, so she doesn't spend much time trying to be clever or educating overtly. The environmentally conscious is the only didactic tune in the lot, gently imploring listeners to "think about tomorrow please!" The others tend rely on charmingly silly nonsense humor and irresistibly catchy acoustic guitar and piano tunes. may not be teaching here, but her teaching experience clearly gives her an unfailing instinct for entertaining young children. ~ Evan Cater