With five Parents' Choice Awards, two National Parenting Publications Honors Awards, and with contributions to numerous compilation albums including a Grammy nominated and a Grammy Award winning CD, children's author, poet, and songwriter Eric Ode delivers music children and families love to groove to. Give a listen to these tracks! Rock Nocturnal is a rolling, rocking party of tunes, as perfect for road trips as it is for the classroom. Visit Eric Ode's web site, www.EricOde.com, for lyrics, activities, and classroom resources. "Singer-songwriter-author-poet Eric Ode takes listeners on a tuneful and fanciful night time tour of the garden and beyond to celebrate the rich variety of creatures that live and forage under the stars, from "Gophers in the Garden" and an acrobatic bat, to a possum in a tree and a "mole in a hole" (who loves a "shrew in the straw"). In one standout track, "Hooray for Jessie Skunk," a little skunk gets the better of a mama grizzly, an alligator in an elevator and--while scuba diving--a hungry shark. "Raccoon and the Wizard's Daughter," another highlight, puts a delightful fairy tale spin on just how raccoons came to be nocturnal foragers, wear masks and sport rings on their tails." - Parents' Choice Foundation "Rock Nocturnal (is) a solid set of folky pop-rock with the occasional detour into raccoon-themed pirate chanties. The shuffling bluesy title track has a fun shout-out along chorus, and as you might expect from someone who spends a lot of time with the written word, there are a handful of songs which enjoy words as words ("Gophers in the Garden," "There's a Mole in the Hole," "Raccoon Round"). And if your kids just want a pop song, try "Look at That Acro-Bat." Rock Nocturnal to me sounds like an album recorded at least partially with the intent for use in schools and libraries, and should be popular in those venues. Unlike many albums of that nature…it also succeeds on its own merits far from that educational context. Recommended." - Stefan Shepherd, Zooglobble "This imaginative collection of original songs addresses real-life garden challenges like “Gophers in the Garden” and veers into delightful imagery in the Irish-tinged “Raccoon and the Wizard’s Daughter.” There’s a nice range of musical styles (e.g., Stray Cats-sounding “Possibly the Possum,” twangy call-and-response in“There’s a Mole in a Hole”) with the good environmental information. This is a bouncy, fun CD saturated with Ode’s naturally positive sound. Perfect to introduce young kids to the animals of the night." - Kathy O'Connell, Kids Corner on WXPN