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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0790248024226 Item Dimensions: Label: Putumayo World Music Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music MPN: 242 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Putumayo World Music Release Date: October 04, 2005 Studio: Putumayo World Music Editorial Review: Product Description: Putumayo Kids is committed to introducing children to other cultures through fun, upbeat world and folk music. These CD's feature songs with child-friendly lyrics and liner notes that educate and inspire cultural curiosity. A musical rendez-vous of fun French and French Creole songs that will delight children of all ages. This collection features 12 songs by artists from France, Quebec, the Caribbean and Africa. Information about the songs and lyrics in English and French can be found in the accompanying liner notes. Amazon.com: What a welcome change this collection is! Completely free of the arch, cloying ickiness that sometimes informs even the most well-intentioned kids' music offerings, these tunes may well help create a vanguard of pint-sized, sophisticated (in the best sense of the word!) world citizens. While not all of the selections were originally composed with this market in mind, the music is nonetheless delightfully child-appropriate in content, rhythmic bounciness and melodic saturation. The producers have rightly assumed that youngsters are small but sentient beings whose developing tastes and interests need to be engaged and encouraged. The styles employed evoke a nostalgic yet ultra-contemporary enfant boulevardier's world of cafés, bicyclettes with bells, bals musette and le jazz hot, so that parents will also be charmed and not find themselves left out of the experience, or worse, rolling their eyes and diving for cover. The songs not only reflect daily life as encountered by children living in France but accurately portray that nation's modern cultural melting pot -- where immigrants and visitors from Africa, the Caribbean and North America, regardless of encroaching ultra-right isolationism, have indelibly graced the national consciousness with their own traditions and dialects. --Christina Roden Average Rating:
 Rating: - excellent for pronunciationI'm a beginner French learner. I got this product for pronunciation practice. It has lyrics for the songs in the package. You can follow the lyrics when you try to sing. There are 4 easy, 4 intermediate and 4 difficult songs, I can say. Rating: - Fabulous French FunThis is an excellent collection of kid-friendly songs in French that don't feel like nursery rhymes in another language. The singers and styles are varied enough to keep it interesting after many repeats, with enough of a contemporary beat to bring a smile to the adults listening. Rating: - Fabulous music!My husband and I both love this c.d. We play it for our daughter all the time. Rating: - Deliciously fun for kids and grownupsThis is a great collection of original, contemporary songs in French from many parts of the world. I think it's the best Putumayo CD ever. People seem to enjoy it no matter their level of French! The music & lyrics are alive, relevant, full of interesting images, textures, voices. The songs have a way of introducing people, points of view, places, sort of like you're going around the world meeting interesting people everywhere you go, hearing their stories. Kids under the "age ... Read More Rating: - highly entertainingOur entire family is pleased with this delightful CD. We purchased it for our one year old granddaughter who dances and smiles every time she hears the music. The added bonus has been that this music lifts the spirits of the adults in the household as well. Magical! |
