Reviewed by Phil Thomson

If you are going to reach innocent young minds with life-changing concepts, here is the way to do it. This whole album positively fizzes and bubbles with life, truth and unbounded enthusiasm - all delivered in manageable soundbites. You don't just listen to an album like this, you act it out with all the fidgetty, wriggly rhythm and bouncability you can muster. The songs are superbly visual, interactive and full of wonderfully provocative moments: "Pigs go 'oink...but they don't say I love you like I do" (Sarah Pickering's "The Lions Roar"), "We can clap and click, wave and shake/catch and throw, pick up and make" ("Special" - Sarah Pickering again). This is a totally kids-centred production, guaranteed to move any "foot-stomping, hand-clapping, knee-slapping, toe-tapping all-singing child of the Lord" (Joanne Stuckey's 'All Singing Child"). I have never heard such quality child-friendly songs in years; all credit to the writers. Children are the hardest to please and so discerning - and for the child in us all, this one hits the button with the children's infectious singing. I just love the way the team lead from the front, the vocalists introducing instruments as if they were alive, orchestrating the changes of pace with so much assurance and everyone singing their hearts out at the slightest excuse. No wonder you keep it running, no wonder the children flooded into Nottingham to be a part of the recording sessions. Full marks go to Nigel Hemming, Simon Parry, Sarah Pickering, Cathy Burton and all the others involved in this Vineyard production. A first rate resource for any hard-pressed Sunday school.

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