Postman Pat set your teeth on edge? Here's something new to amuse the wee treasures
Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Sunday November 16, 2003 The Observer
For anyone who contemplates the arrival of a CD of children's songs in their household with a certain dread, in the knowledge that they will be condemned to listen to the same dozen tunes over a trillion times if their bairns warm to them, My Silver Balloon will not come as any comfort: for this is a superior example of the genre, with songs written by the former singer with the only sporadically rubbish indie group Dodgy, Matthew Priest, plus broadcaster Jon Snow narrating a story. But the real selling point is that each CD is personalised with the name of your child: so 'Sam' will crop up in the lyrics on at least 50 occasions, bringing bright smiles to the early-morning breakfast table.
Reproduced from The Observer Date November 16th 2003
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