Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Sunday in Kyoto.

Sunday in Kyoto. Sunday in Kyoto Songs by Gilles Vigneault Stephanie Jorisch, illustrator The Secret Mountain c/o Sacks & Company 427 West Fourteenth Street, NY, NY 10014 www.secretmountain.com 9782923163567, $16.95, www.amazon.com "Sunday in Kyoto" is a beautiful collection ofchildren's songs by famed Canadian singer-songwriter GillesVigneault. The title song is illustrated with a fantastic and delicateseries of whimsical paintings that exactly capture the tone ofVigneault's wonderful song lyrics and music. "Sunday inKyoto" is a storybook/music CD with as much emphasis on the audioportion of the package as the written and visualized text. In additionto the title song, there are another 14 song-poems performed byVigneault along with Patrick Watson, Coral Egan, Thomas Hellman, NdidiO, and Jessica Vigneault. "Sunday in Kyoto" is issued inEnglish beginning October 27. It will enhance the already prestigiousreputation of the songwriter Gilles Vigneault, sometimes known as thePete Seegar of Canada. The Secret Mountain, a publishing company withoffices in Montreal and Paris, currently has 11 releases in English, 18in French, and about half of its releases are available in bothlanguages. All titles are available in two formats; a storybook-musicCD, and a digipak CD, a 12 song CD with printable files of originallyrics, illustrations, and music charts. "Sunday in Kyoto"promises to be a great attraction for the age 13 and under crowd andtheir parents and teachers. A strong multicultural set of influences canbe traced in "Sunday in Kyoto" and in other releases of TheSecret Mountain, which ultimately multiply its vastly positive teachingimpact. Some other titles from The Secret Mountain in this seriesinclude "Dream Songs Night Songs ... From Mali to Louisiana,"by Patrick Lacoursiere, also "Dream Songs Night Songs ... FromChina to Senegal" by the same author, and "A Duck in New YorkCity" and "A Poodle in Paris" by Connie Kaldor.

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