Bubble Ride cover from Vanessa Trien.

Greater Greater Washington readers came up with a great list of children’s books which have urbanist themes or describe experiences of kids growing up in the city, like riding the subway or walking outside an apartment neighborhood on a snowy day. What about for music?

Sophie has really been enjoying Bubble Ride, a CD by Boston area children’s singer Vanessa Trien. Besides some (great) songs about the popular topic, farm or zoo animals, there are several songs about living in the city.

“Train Dance” is about some people on the T who can’t help but dance to the rhythm of the train rumbling. And “Spinning Around” relates the experience of a child who lives in a second-floor apartment in the city and goes on a “walk to the bank or to the grocery store” in the stroller.

Do you know of other children’s albums that kids in walkable urban places can relate to?

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Tagged: arts, education, parenting, pedestrians, walkability

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.