Enhancing a little one’s quiet time

My First DVD! Stories to Remember

Lightyear Entertainment

$19.98

Infants to age 5

www.lightyear.com

A simply lovely DVD made up of four multiple-award-winning videos from 1989 and the early ‘90s: “Rhymin’ Time,” “Singing Time,” “Storytime” and “Bedtime.” Adapted from children’s author Kay Charao’s baby and preschooler books, these nursery rhymes, poems and stories are sung and told by Judy Collins, Phylicia Rashad and Arlo Guthrie.

Music by Ernest Troost and Grammy winner Jason Miles, a soft pace, the pastel beauty of the animation by critically acclaimed animators Michael Sporn and Daniel Ivanick, and Collins’ ethereal, lullaby vocals, in particular, promise quiet-time enchantment.

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Dream With Me Tonight

Sherwin Communications Inc.

CD: $12.98. Infants to age 5

(800) 927-9848

www.dreamwithmetonight.com

This sweet CD, with songs written by Lanny Sherwin and tenderly sung by Melodie Crittenden, is worth seeking out, great for nap-time soothing or baby shower gift-giving, with flowing, softly synthesized pop and jazz ballads about dancing moonbeams, angels, snuggles and cuddles.

-- Lynne Heffley