Junior's Bedtime Songs

As bedtime snuggle-partners go, a stalk of asparagus may rate only slightly higher than a porcupine or cactus. But Junior Asparagus, the VeggieTales cartoon, takes getting tucked in one step further. Together with his sweet-voiced Mommy Asparagus and a chorus of kid friends, he serenades with a 15-song slumber party that, come lights-out for little aspara-guy, severs itself into split-track format so at-home snoozers can sing along a second time. An intoxicatingly spare, simple Twinkle, Twinkle gives way to Brahms Lullaby and the lovey-dovey A Bushel and a Peck. Then the perfectly kid-friendly Carpenters classic (They Long to Be) Close to You drifts us ever closer to dreamland before a six-song section of Christian lullabies crops up. Originals My Day, Thankfulness Song, and God s Love march us through a series of preschool tribulations, ponderings, and praises; and traditional songs God Is So Good and Love Him in the Morning set a compass toward the spiritual for final thoughts. But it s the last five tunes that slip listeners the heaviest dose of sleep serum. Mommy Asparagus s loving One in a Million and All Through the Night lead directly to the Land of Nod s doorstep, and the reassuring Think of Me rings the bell. Be it bedtime or not, count on kids 2 to 5 (and not just the cruciferous kind) cozying up to Junior and his jolly green band. The record that answers the prayers of parents seeking chill-out music for the churchgoing child has arrived. --Tammy La Gorce
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