The Golden Song Book is an influential publication and a key document in establishing the canon of children’s music in the United States in ...

When Dorothy and her friends discover that the Wizard is a humbug showman, he admits, "I have been making believe." "Making b...

Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale considers the special relationship between Oz and Musicals in the US. Drawing on my e...

First posted on October 11, 2018.  "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is one of the first songs many English-speaking kids learn. The canon...

Olaf is childhood personified. A creation of Elsa in her childhood, he rematerializes in her cathartic release in "Let it Go," emb...

  In The Wizard of Oz , when Dorothy and her friends return from killing the Wicked Witch of the West to have their wishes granted by the Wi...

  In this episode of Barney and Friends , Mother Goose's book of nursery rhymes is eaten by a bookworm, so Barney and the kids help her ...

Kate Greenaway, "Ring-a-ring-a-roses," Mother Goose (1881) “Ring Around the Rosie” is the iconic children’s circle game song. The ...

  The Fisher-Price Change-a-Record Music Box was first released in 1971. It includes 5 double-sided toy records in different colors with a t...

 In which Donald encounters a gap between the child in the book and feathered reality of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Lamplighters appear as sentimental and nostalgic figures in literature for and about children. Maria Susanna Cummins's 1854 novel ...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-69) is one of those hugely important texts in children's literature and the history of chi...

John Newbery's A Little Pretty  Pocket-Book was first published in London in 1744 and is considered by many to be the first children...

Composer-lyricist Charlie Smalls wrote "You Can't Win" for the stage version of The Wiz (1975), but it was dropped after th...

"But I Like You" is a song by Jeff Moss sung by Bert and Ernie. It first appeared in 1984 and takes place within a classic Sesa...

One of the first films ever exhibited in public stars a child, Andrée Lumiere.  Repas de bébé  (Baby's Meal) was one of the films e...

The Sesame Street theme song has opened the program since its first episode on November 10, 1969. The lyric, written by Jon Stone and Bru...

Alice's Wonderland (1923), although it had been produced under Laugh-O-Gram films, was the first film shown to distributors by Disney ...

In this picture, L. Frank Baum poses with actors from his Fairylogue and Radio-Plays . Always intent to expand his Oz books int...

The official trailer for Mary Poppins Returns has just about everything: nostalgia, magic, and a nonagenarian Dick Van Dyke dancing on the f...

Jacqueline Woodson’s Pecan Pie Baby tells the story of an African American girl, Gia, who is less than happy that she is going to have a ...

Judy Garland is probably best known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and for her song from the movie, "Over the Ra...

The "America Rock" episodes of the ABC interstitial cartoon series Schoolhouse Rock  presented lessons about American hist...

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, the Swiss educator, held that education should be child centered, teaching the student through natural explora...

I've been listening to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's early compositions, and this is one of my favorites. Mozart wrote Gallimathias m...

The first Oz thing I ever owned, long before I had any idea about collecting, must have been this read-along book and cassette tape: Supers...

In Iranian director Majid Majidi's 1997 film  Children of Heaven, Ali loses his sister Zahra's shoes during an errand to have the...