Barenaked Ladies

Kudos to the Barenaked Ladies for producing such a dense and excellent album of original children's music. With their flair for wordplay and folksy humor, these guys have nailed their audience (4 years and up, we'd say). They have the rare gift of talking like children without talking down to them, which is perfectly illustrated in a song like "I Don't Like" or the clever "7 8 9" (a meditation on the cannibalistic number 7). This may well be The Muppet Show of recent children's albums: winking at the parents even as it keeps the kids engrossed.