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Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet?

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I am a volunteer storyteller for two year olds at the local library. After story time we danced to "Everybody Dance" and "The Bean Bag". The children and the parents were so excited when we finished that they broke out in cheers! I'm ordering my own copy of this CD today and so are a half dozen other parents and caregivers!

I am always looking for innovative Childrens Music CD's and I was excited to fall upon this real gem. As you can tell from the title, Hap Palmer has a great sense of humor and imagination. I like music CDs that don't have the same ol' kid songs that we all know and have heard again and again. Instead, I like exposing my children to a lot of fun new songs. Not only are they more interesting to listen to, but I love to see how fast their great little memories can learn these new songs. You get everything in this CD! Part of the songs are pure fun and the other part mix fun with learning.

Some of the great fun songs include the title song "Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet," "What Could a Bean Bag Be," and "The Compost Bin." His learning songs teach shapes, sound blends, and rhyming. I love "Letters in the Blender" and "Fun with The Rhyme Time Band" as well as "Jig Along Shapes" and "Action Fraction."

As you can see from reading the titles, these aren't your run-of-the-mill songs. Hap Palmer has a great talent at creating songs that are interesting to listen to and fun to dance with. This hour long CD is definitely worth it and will quickly become your family's favorite tunes! --Denise Steele-Darnell

Hap Palmer has been honored with many awards for his music for young children. He is a pioneer of pairing movement and music, and integrating basic educational ideas into music. His music interests me as a parent.

So my family and I have made a point of listening to his music, mostly by loan through our local library. Unfortunately, we do not like his musical style or voice very much. Most of his albums are not singable or melodic. I praise Palmer for making music that is good for childen and not like most commercial "junk food" children's music products that are on the market, but we just don't like most of his songs.

"Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet" is one of the exceptions. The songs are interesting and fun to listen to. We like this CD. Plus, the messages are good for children, like most Hap Palmer albums. Thumbs up!

RECOMMENDATION: I suggest that parents start with CD's by Raffi. Then consider this CD. Hap Palmer's music is especially valuable if you use it to interact with your child, such as moving and thinking. Palmer's music is quality.

This is a great CD. My daughter heard the beanbag song from her playgroup and loves it so I had to get this CD. The tunes are catchy and educational.

While visiting our 2 1/2 year old grandson in Colorado over Halloween we brought out Hap Palmer's CD. Everyone from adults to 13, 11 and 7 year olds got involved with the Beanbag song. Knowing the fun involved in this particular song I purchased beanbags from a teacher supply store in the Denver area. We played the song again and again. The following morning we awoke to the beanbag song being played for our grandson at his request - over and over again! Note that this particular disk was originally recommended when our 13 and 11 year old grandsons were 2 and 4. It was recommended by a former pre-school teacher in Chicago. Great fun fo the entire family!

With four boys, we have borrowed lots and lots of children's music CDs from the library. And, of all of them, I have only bought (4): Charlotte Diamond's "12 carrot..", "Songs from Bear in the Big Blue House", Hap's "Rhythms on Parade", and this one "..Jumbo Jet..". Hap's music is produced very well & sounds great -- not cheesy. Very engaging & educational...even I sing along, which says a lot because I find a lot of kids music annoying after about the 3rd song. All my boys have benefited from his music. You CAN'T go wrong with this CD. BUY IT!

product was recieved on time and works wonderful. would of prefered it to have disclosed that it was once a library cd and it had writing all over it, but other than that it was ok

I have this CD and Can a Cherry Pie wave goodbye for my 3 1/2 and 15 month old and we LOVE it. The instructions are clear and gives the children enough time to move to the action. They have learned so much and are having so much fun while learning. Sometimes, I will pause the cd to give them time to answer. We do not listen to the cd from front to back, but I select 2-4 songs to listen to a program them into the cd player so that the kids don't get bored of it. The music is great (no rock or rap that preschoolers and toddlers cannot understand), but not your average Toddler CD.
We Love the title song as it teaches early phonics and recognizing that words start with a letter. I don't turn to the CD to teach my kids everything, but use it as a supplement to my teaching.

I was looking for music that will help my students learn the sounds of the alphabet but to my disappointment there was none included in the album. Anyway, I said it was ok cause because it teaches about other things too like shapes, letters etc. But I was just not inspired by the music. It was not as lively as I expected and it sounded like country music to me. I know the type of songs that will really get my kids excited and this is just not it.