 | The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.00 Alt-country children's songs - but adults will enjoy this even more than children
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 | Country Stars Sing Disney Classics by Disney
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.70 It's not exactly a country album, but it's brilliant. Tanya Tucker sings Someday my prince will come. but as far as I know he still hasn't come. Perhaps that's why she sings it so beautifully.
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 | Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big: Animal Folk Songs by Pete Seeger
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.99 Pete Seeger had an affinity with children. Hey down ho down derry derry down among the leaves so green o. I still remember the line from my infant school days !!!
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 | All Aboard! by John Denver
Buy used from: $6.88 A stunning collection of train songs. Perhaps adults will like this better than childern, who do not identify with trains the way their grandfathers did.
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 | Country Songs for Children by Tom T. Hall
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.50 Tom T was a great storyteller (he wrote Harper Valley PTA as well as his own hits) and it shows in this children's album.
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 | Peter, Paul and Mommy by Peter Paul & Mary
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.55 Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea - just one of the brilliant songs on this collection.
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 | Not for Kids Only by Jerry Garcia
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.41 This was the first children's album I bought, really out of curiosity. It encouraged me to explore further, but I'm still very selective when it comes to children's music.
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 | Leadbelly Sings For Children by Leadbelly
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.99 Not all the songs are children's songs, but they are carefully selected and will keep adults and children both intersted.
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 | Around the World by Jessi Colter & Waylon Jennings
Buy used from: $5.33 Former country singer Jessi Colter works in a very different musical genre now, as this album demonstrates. Versatile or what?
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 | Party Animals by Kathie Lee Gifford
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $0.79 Kathie is ideally suited to this type of album - it's pure magic !!!!
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 | Childhood Days by Various Artists
Buy used from: $52.55 Brilliant UK compilation including many famous children's songs
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 | Animal Folk Songs for Children by Mike Seeger
Buy used from: $20.00 Anything Pete could do, so could the other members of the Seeger family.
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 | American Folk Songs For Children by Mike & Peggy Seeger
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $15.77 Another great Seeger family collection.
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 | Vintage Children's Favorites (1926 - 1950) by Various Artists
Buy used from: $9.51 This contains many original versions of classics songs by Henry Hall and others. If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise
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 | American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children by Pete Seeger
Buy used from: $11.25 Another great children's collection from Pete Seeger.
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 | Rainbow Connection by Willie Nelson
Buy used from: $1.00 I suppose it was inevitable that Willie would record children's songs eventually - he's tried everything else (well, almost).
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 | On the Sunny Side by Maria Muldaur
Buy used from: $3.99 Maria, with help from her daughter, presents old songs in a way that is intended to appeal to children without causing adults to run and hide.
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 | Country Goes Raffi by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.74 Raffi, the children's entertainer, teams up with country singers. Sounds unlikely? Read the reviews - if a Pearl Jam fan (which I'm certainly not) likes it, you will.
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 | Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt by Waylon Jennings
Buy used from: $22.12 For Waylon, it was not enough to appear on Jessi's album (see above) - he went and did his own - and brilliantly !!!
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 | Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too by Peter Paul & Mary
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.49 More great music from a group who are so good at this type of song.
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 | You Were Made for Me/In Disneyland by Freddie & the Dreamers
Buy used from: $10.98 The second half of this twofer is a Diisney covers album.
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 | Wonderful Day/With a Smile and a Song by Doris Day
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $11.95 The second half of this twofer was the only children'a album recorded by Doris Day.
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 | Chipmunks in Low Places by The Chipmunks
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.24 he Chipmunks recorded a lot of albums. This, their only country album, is my choice.
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 | Hello Children Everywhere!: 60 Favourite Kids' Songs by Various Artists
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $13.98 A wonderful British triple CD
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 | Hello Children Everywhere by Various Artists
Buy new: $51.99 / Used from: $39.95 An even better British triple CD - some overlap with earlier compilation.
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