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26 Animals is the first kids record by Timothy Sellers and his northeast Los Angeles indie pop band Artichoke. It is an alphabet of groovy little songs that comes with a full-color, hardcover 8 x8 songbook. The songbook contains complete lyrics, chords, and Timothy's watercolor illustrations of each animal.
Can you imagine sleeping every day and spending your nights eating ants? Don t answer right away. Think about it. They bite. They are full of acid. You will need to close your nostrils with special nose muscles so the ants don t crawl up into your face and bite you when you shove your way into their colony. You will also need a very long sticky tongue capable of licking up 50,000 ants in one night. If this describes you, congratulations! You are probably an Aardvark.
What about the other 25 animals? Yes, Beavers would make excellent pets -- except that they would chew your wooden furniture into convenient sticks with which to build dams and lodges, creating wetland habitat in your very own home. Cats do what they like. You probably know a few Dogs. Elephants can listen to low frequencies with their ears, feet, and trunks. Frogs are the best vertebrate jumpers. Giraffes are tall. Hippos are cranky. Do you wanna Iguana?
Jellyfish could have been a Pixies song. Kangaroo swings like a marsupial should. Lungfish finally brings some attention to this versatile creature, long obscured by the lion in other menageries. Mosquito is a true story. Newt is an amphibious party. Octopus describes the talents and tricks of the sea s foremost escape artist. Porcupine is groovy and instructive. Quail! Yes -- Quail! Rattlesnake has got two ends. One makes noise, the other venom. She s got some pointy teeth for biting you. Skunk could have been a Bob Dylan song. Tiger rocks! Sea Urchin is seasick seafood. Vulture could have been a Kinks song. Woodpecker could have been a Belle and Sebastian song. Tyrannosaurus Rex is an ex-animal. He s exanimate, he s extinct. Yak takes you to Tibet for a few minutes. And Zebra is a survivor, thanks in part to the colorblindness of lions.
26 Animals and its illustrated songbook are recommended for environmental and musical families who want to sing in the car and strum by the campfire.