Winner of the Parents' Choice Gold Award
“Ted Jacobs has followed up his lovely debut album, A Child’s Garden Of Songs with absolutely inspired musical renditions of poetic visions by Poe, Longfellow, Dickinson, Riley, and Field. Jacobs matches singers’ voices and folk, country, and classical ballad styles to poems carefully selected for the way they speak directly to the emotional colors of children, to parents, and to any adult who remembers childhood…”
Lynne Hefley - Parents’ Choice & The Los Angeles Times
“...he [Jacobs] creates music that supports and illuminates the emotions being conveyed by the poems, and he does so with a sensitivity and depth of feeling that is truly astounding…”
Fred Koch - Chicago Parent Magazine
“...each song is gracefully performed and the result is a vibrant, insightfully arranged tartan of sounds, in which each poem-song flows seamlessly into the next... The poets and marvelous singers sound as though they are descendants of a single clan. This album goes beyond pure musical enjoyment to serve as an initiation into the work of the great poets of the past…” Acoustic Guitar Magazine
“...besides the poetry, whose every last syllable could easily be committed to memory by careful repeat listeners, what's really worth celebrating here is the music. Jacobs didn't skimp on instruments, throwing in everything from dobro to mandolin to djembe to fiddle, all the while keeping each track uncluttered…”
Tammy La Gorce - Amazon
“What a treasure this work is, what a lovely way to bring the images of these poets into our families. I can only imagine that Emily, Eugene, Henry, Edgar, and James are smiling happily as they tap their toes to the musical interpretation of their timeless prose…”
National Parenting Publications Awards