"Roller Coaster" - Bari Koral

Song: "Roller Coaster"

Album: The Apple Tree & The Honey Bee

Description: There is very little to this video -- scenes of simply-drawn roller coaster cars going up and down a surprisingly unthemed roller coaster. (Aren't all coasters themed these days?) But they're drawn by Joel Henriques, so they have a certain charm to them. The video itself is actually part of a big Yogapalooza Live concert featuring Koral in New York City on November 21, so if there's a certain physical activity feeling to the song (and video), I think you know why.

Source: YouTube

"Good Morning My Love" - Vered

Artist: Vered

Song: "Good Morning My Love

Album: Good Morning My Love

Description: A simple, lovely animation from Sivan Kidron of CRC Media which captures the essential gentleness of Vered's debut album's title track. Lots of parent-child bonding going on throughout the animal kingdom.

Source: YouTube

"Go Fire Truck, Go" - Suzi Shelton

Artist: Suzi Shelton

Song: "Go, Fire Truck, Go"

Album: Smile in My Heart

Description: I can't say that this video is terribly complicated. Even the song itself -- from Shelton's forthcoming album -- is comparatively simple, structurally -- but considering that the songwriter, Henry Rivetti, was FOUR YEARS OLD when he wrote the original song, that's kind of expected. Right in your 4-year-old's wheelhouse.

Source: YouTube

"Yellow Banana" - NikosKids

Artist: NikosKids (aka Nikolai Moderbacher)

Song: "Yellow Banana"

Album: In This Moment

Description: I suppose I could complain about the color/fruit choices -- I, myself, am a D'Anjou pear man myself, and therefore can't countenance the implied Bosc (brown) pear in the lyrics -- but this is a fun video. Think of it as a much more kid-friendly version of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Source: YouTube

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"I'm Gonna Light Up the World" - Lloyd H. Miller

Artist: Lloyd H. Miller

Song: "I'm Gonna Light Up the World"

Album: S.S. Brooklyn

Description: Lloyd Miller's first solo album, S.S. Brooklyn , is out today, and he gets his dance on in this mellow video for "I'm Gonna Light Up the World," the sweet first single from the album.

Lloyd's got better moves than me.

Source: YouTube (via Time Out New York Kids)

"Seventeen Years (A Cicada Love Song)" - Lloyd Miller

Artist: Lloyd Miller

Song: "Seventeen Years (A Cicada Love Song)"

Album: S.S. Brooklyn (forthcoming)

Description: A timely, funky jam from Miller's forthcoming late-summer solo album, interspersed with some very homemade cicada drawings and close-up cicada videos.

Source: YouTube

"Rainy Days" - Tim and the Space Cadets

Artist: Tim and the Space Cadets

Song: "Rainy Days"

Album: Anthems for Adventure

Description: Whatever expertise you thought you had in constructing bed sheet forts and ships, you are nothing compared to these kids, grooving along to a bit of country-tinged pop.

Source: YouTube

"Round the World" - Hot Peas 'N Butter

Artist: Hot Peas 'N Butter

Song: "Round the World"

Album: Hot Peas 'N Butter Volume 5 - Best of the Bowl

Description: I understand why the duo stands still for the entire song -- it's to make it easier to slide the gorgeous animation in and out on a puppet theatre-like stage. (It still looks odd to me. But I'm cranky like that.)

Source: YouTube