Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Websites I've Used
Here are three websites I have looked at so far that review or lead to reviews of children's music:
http://www.childrensmusic.org
This site calls itself “a non-profit resource for kids, families, and children's performers worldwide”. The most valuable part of the site is the list of The Children’s Music Web Awards Finalists. This year’s finalists can be found here: http://www.childrensmusic.org/cmwa06finalists.html
The good thing about this list is that the awards are “guided by adults and chosen by kids”, so you can rest assured that real kids listened to these and actually liked them.
http://www.kidsmusicweb.com/
This site calls itself “your starting point on the web for music made for young children!” Exclamation points aside, I didn’t find this site terribly useful for finding music to buy, though it does live up to its promise of being a starting point that will lead you to many other useful sites. This site does have one brilliant tool for children’s librarians who need music to use for storytime or other programs: they have free .mp3 files of traditional children’s songs with the lyrics so you can learn them. Nice.
http://www.kidzmusic.com/
John Woods writes music reviews for Parenthood.com, which rates all sorts of things for kids from movies to books to music. This site is handy for two reasons: it lists the NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards) winners since 1994, along with brief descriptions of the albums and links to where you can purchase them. One-stop shopping for the busy librarian!
I'm sure there are more out there...please, send your favorites with a bit about why you find them useful.
http://www.childrensmusic.org
This site calls itself “a non-profit resource for kids, families, and children's performers worldwide”. The most valuable part of the site is the list of The Children’s Music Web Awards Finalists. This year’s finalists can be found here: http://www.childrensmusic.org/cmwa06finalists.html
The good thing about this list is that the awards are “guided by adults and chosen by kids”, so you can rest assured that real kids listened to these and actually liked them.
http://www.kidsmusicweb.com/
This site calls itself “your starting point on the web for music made for young children!” Exclamation points aside, I didn’t find this site terribly useful for finding music to buy, though it does live up to its promise of being a starting point that will lead you to many other useful sites. This site does have one brilliant tool for children’s librarians who need music to use for storytime or other programs: they have free .mp3 files of traditional children’s songs with the lyrics so you can learn them. Nice.
http://www.kidzmusic.com/
John Woods writes music reviews for Parenthood.com, which rates all sorts of things for kids from movies to books to music. This site is handy for two reasons: it lists the NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards) winners since 1994, along with brief descriptions of the albums and links to where you can purchase them. One-stop shopping for the busy librarian!
I'm sure there are more out there...please, send your favorites with a bit about why you find them useful.
