Reviewed by Tony Cummings

It's easy to be snobbish about music pitched at three-to-seven year old children but I have to state immediately that this is an album all but impossible for an adult to listen to. Maybe it's the sheer banality of songs like Brenda Piper's "It's Christmas Time Again" or that Christmas favourite "Ring-a-ring-a-Roses" (eh?) but even when the songs are half decent (Sydney Carter's "Here We Go Up To Bethlehem" or Michael Perry's calypso carol "See Him Lying On A Bed Of Straw") the performances by the far-from-tuneful kiddiewinkers and the stilted arrangements make this listening agony. There are much better children's Christmas albums than this one around.

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