This week on Ages 3 and Up!, we continued our celebration of National Poetry Month with George Ella Lyon. George Ella has been writing poetry and stories for kids since the mid 80’s, and we were SO PLEASED to have her join us on our show! She sang her book/poem, Sleepsong (pictured above) and read a few of her other works. We played some poems by other authors, songs about trees- in honor of Arbor Day, and new music from The Verve Pipe and the Sugar Free Allstars.

Here’s our list:

Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke– “One Fat Frog”- Rise and Shine

Donovan– “Wynken, Blynken and Nod”- Pied Piper

George Ella Lyon– “Sleepsong”- LIVE in Studio

Clementown– “The Runaway Waffle”- Polkatbats and Octopus Slacks: The Music!

Shel Silverstein– “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”- v/a The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words, His Songs, His Friends

The Verve Pipe– “Worrisome One”- A Family Album

Boogers– “I Don’t Need To Be Worried”- Road To Rock

George Ella Lyon– “Counting on the Woods”- LIVE in Studio

Dreyer Family Band– “Big Green Tree”- Family Photograph

Music For Aardvarks and Other Mammals– “Big Old Tree”- Taxi

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem– “Branching Out”- Ranky Tanky

Ratboy Jr.- “Living In the Trees”- Smorgasbord

George Ella Lyon– “Sweet Sixteen”- LIVE in Studio

Twink– “Pussycat Pussycat”- The Broken Record

Robbert Bobbert– “The Mighty Mighty Elephant”- …And The Bubble Machine

John Upchurch and Mark Greenberg– “The Elephant Leads the Way”- John and Mark’s Children’s Record

Sugar Free Allstars– “Tiger in My Back Yard”- Funky Fresh and Sugar Free

George Ella Lyon– “Red Shoes”- LIVE in Studio
Heidi Swedberg and the Sukey Jump Band– “Skip to My Shoo”- Play!

Have a GREAT week!!!