The Whistling Pig Presents Songs from the Heart

Parents' Choice Awards : Audio : Music

The Whistling Pig Presents Songs from the Heart

Fall 2004 Music

Ages: 3 - 93 yrs.

Producer: The Whistling Pig

CD Price: $15.00

Review:

This upbeat collection of fourteen songs is delicately balanced between sugary and satisfying. Fortunately,the array of acoustic instruments—violin, mandolin, Irish flute, concertina, tin whistle and more—set off the sentimentality like lace edging on an antique valentine. The songs themselves contain musical echoes of traditional folksongs and the characters—Holly B. Bunny, Jilly Whillickers, Mayor Muskrat and all the other inhabitants of the Smallish Woods—would feel right at home with Pooh and Piglet in the Hundred Acre Woods. From the jaunty whistling refrain of the first song (“The Whistling Pig”) to the lulling flute notes woven into the album’s one lullaby, “A Little Heart Song,” this is a unique production that will captivate the very young as well as their parents.

Kristi Elle Jemtegaard is the Coordinator of Youth Services for the Arlington Public Library system. She has taught courses on children’s and young adult literature at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia. She has served on both the Newbery and Caldecott Award Committees of the American Library Association and has chaired the Notable Children’s Recordings Committee and the May Hill Arbuthnot Award Committee. She is a member and past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington DC and has chaired the Washington Post–Book Guild Nonfiction Award Committee. She is a founding member of Capitol Choices, an organization of professionals in the field of children’s literature in the greater Washington DC area. She regularly reviews children’s literature and audio productions for a variety of national publications.

	Parents' Choice Awards : Audio : Music The Whistling Pig Presents Songs from the Heart Fall 2004 Music Ages: 3 - 93 yrs. Producer: The Whistling Pig CD Price: $15.00 Review: This upbeat collection of fourteen songs is delicately balanced between sugary and satisfying. Fortunately,the array of acoustic instruments—violin, mandolin, Irish flute, concertina, tin whistle and more—set off the sentimentality like lace edging on an antique valentine. The songs themselves contain musical echoes of traditional folksongs and the characters—Holly B. Bunny, Jilly Whillickers, Mayor Muskrat and all the other inhabitants of the Smallish Woods—would feel right at home with Pooh and Piglet in the Hundred Acre Woods. From the jaunty whistling refrain of the first song (“The Whistling Pig”) to the lulling flute notes woven into the album’s one lullaby, “A Little Heart Song,” this is a unique production that will captivate the very young as well as their parents. Kristi Elle Jemtegaard ©2004 Parents' Choice Kristi Elle Jemtegaard is the Coordinator of Youth Services for the Arlington Public Library system. She has taught courses on children’s and young adult literature at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia. She has served on both the Newbery and Caldecott Award Committees of the American Library Association and has chaired the Notable Children’s Recordings Committee and the May Hill Arbuthnot Award Committee. She is a member and past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington DC and has chaired the Washington Post–Book Guild Nonfiction Award Committee. She is a founding member of Capitol Choices, an organization of professionals in the field of children’s literature in the greater Washington DC area. She regularly reviews children’s literature and audio productions for a variety of national publications.