28 games that make children feel good about themselves— what could be more fun than that?? Winner of the 2000 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio SNAP Award and Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Children's Products, 28 Instant Songames is great fun for typical children as well as those with special needs!

Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, "Songames" are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. This full-length, 28-song music CD will get kids up and moving in no time. The activities include numerous games of body awareness, movement play, feeling identification, and self-expression, as well as imagination games that encourage expressive language play.

The 28 Instant Songames are:

• Non-competitive
• Inclusion friendly
• Kid-tested, parent-approved
• A great way to induce a state of playfulness and magical wonder
• Perfect for gradual change; kids can change the way they play the games each time
• Great play activities for home, school, and clinic settings

Danceland is a musical invitation to move joyfully and creatively!

Offering safe and surgent fun for kids of all abilities, you'll be surprised and delighted by all the sensory-motor activities hidden in Danceland. The music invites participation and engages children in rhythmic expression, which is fundamental to physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Designed by physical and occupational therapists, over 75 movement activities can be adapted for physical education and home programming.

The "travel guide" combines theory with instruction, while encouraging you to put your own creative twists on the activities. Turn dances into games, choreographed stories, or theatrical performances! Polka to an authentic Krakowiak, or have kids choreograph their own movements to singer Lora Dart's Native American song "Touch the Earth." Kids can croon karaoke-style to an uproarious re-make of the 60s hit "Wild Thing," or have a Kwanzaa party to "Wisdom of Africa." The possibilities are endless!

Marvelous Mouth Music is an audio CD of 21 activity-based Songames designed by Dr. Suzanne Evans Morris, an internationally recognized speech therapist. Ideally suited for kids ages 2-9, this CD brings speech development to life through musical play. Instrumentation includes guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, drums, synthesizer, and percussion.

The 55-page companion booklet includes a "How to Use" section, song lyrics, a model for how to use all types of music to promote therapeutic change, and a glossary of important terms written in easy-to-understand, parent-centered language.

Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, Songames are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games!

Songames can:

• Engage children in active play
• Help children learn to calm down and stay focused
• Enhance oral-motor skills and expressive language play
• Decrease tactile, auditory, visual, and sensory defensiveness

Featuring great rhythms and instrumentation from African Kora, to Imbira, to the artful piano music of Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Art Lande, kids will want to play Songames over and over again!

Award-winning pianist Fred Hersch plays 15 luxuriously gentle and lyrical selections to relax and soothe the senses. The CD features compositions from Hersch as well as Debussy, Mozart, Bach, and Gershwin. The accompanying leaflet features tips and resources for caregivers.

A Message from Fred Hersch:

I am truly gratified that a very personal project that began as a simple expression of my love for two wonderful children may now have a positive impact beyond my immediate circle of family and friends. I sincerely hope that the music touches you and the ones you love.