little bird

yesterday, i listened to some new children’s music cd’s that i bought for work. i was completely delighted by elizabeth mitchell’s new cd, “you are my little bird.” it’s the sort of album my mother would have purchased if it had been around when we were kids. very gentle, some traditional folk songs, some i’d never heard before (maybe originals?), some in languages other than english (including my favorite spanish one, “pio, pio, pio”). her website even has a songbook that includes chords for some of the songs. i like her other three albums too (one is a collaboration with lisa loeb), but this is my favorite so far.