If the current tabloids, magazine programs, newspaper inserts, red carpet interviews and fashion faux pas have miraculously eluded you, it is my sad duty to lift up the rock you’ve been living under and point out that it is once again award season. And while Grammy and his cousin Oscar tend to hog the limelight there are many other members of the Award family. The Kids and Family Music Awards are an annual nod to the best of the kids music genre coordinated by the Fids and Kamily blog. 19 writers, radio programmers, and others involved in the music industry have come to a consensus on the top 15 albums of 2007, and they are:

1. Gustafer Yellowgold - Have You Never Been Yellow?
2. Asylum Street Spankers - Mommy Says No!
3. Terrible Twos - If You Ever See An Owl
4. Peter Himmelman - My Green Kite
5. Hipwaders - Educated Kid
6. Renee & Jeremy - It’s a Big World!
7. Jimmies - Make Your Own Someday
8. Various Artists - Play (DeSoto Compilation)
9. Father Goose - It’s a Bam Bam Diddly!
10. Recess Monkey - Wonderstuff
11. Sugar Free Allstars - Dos Ninos
12. Various Artists - For the Kids! 3
13. Roger Day - Dream Big!
14. Joe McDermott - Everybody Plays Air Guitar
15. Deedle Deedle Dees - Freedom in a Box

Never heard of the Sugar Free Allstars? Think the Hipwaders are simply those goofy rubber pants grandpa wears fly fishing? Allow the Pokey Pup to fetch you some learnin’. The Pokey Pup is your soon to be favorite father-run, independent source for kids music and dvds and they have all of the Fids and Kamily award winners conveniently located in one place.

Creator and owner Bryan Townsend describes the site this way, “The Pokey Pup was born to right the injustice of all of the annoying kid’s music and media that has flooded the market for too many years. Let’s face it, parents end up listening to this music and watching the DVDs as much as their kids do, and after a while, that can be downright excruciating on everyone’s ears. In our humble opinion, we think the best children’s music can also be music that parents enjoy as much as their little ones. The best DVDs can be enjoyed by all ages. So put down that sticky old cassette of imaginary animals and guys dressed in matching clothes and join the revolution–the revolution of hip music the whole family can enjoy.” Rock on!

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