Aoede’s Is Love A Fairy Tale? Musical Storybook
An inventive meld of magic, mythology and musical for tweens! A unique and compelling award-winning magical musical story with interactive songbook, featuring 4 original catchy Aoede songs you can sing and play along with over and over. Go on a musical adventure with Aoede in the magical Kingdom of Wonderhaven. Enter Aoede’s enchanting world and listen as compelling narration, quirky and endearing characters, and original memorable and catchy songs and sound effects come to life. Read the story yourself, touch the beautifully illustrated character animations, and create your own world of imagination! Loved by tweens and young adults, girls and boys, ages 7 and up.
STORY
Aoede’s Is Love A Fairy Tale? Musical Storybook tells the sweet tale of Aoede the Muse of Song who searches for Love in a magical Kingdom called Wonderhaven. Along the way, she meets colorful characters: Morpheus the shape-shifter, Binkle the Garden Gnome, Albert the Spaceman Ice Cream Vendor, Mr. Wonderful, Amala her Fairy Godmother, and her Ghost Skeletons, who each tell her something about Love, and sing duets with Aoede.
HIGHLIGHTS
1 . Sing and Play along with Aoede! Read and sing the lyrics and touch musical notes in the Musical Storybook featuring 4 interactive Aoede songs from Is Love A Fairy Tale?
2. Listen to and read along with an original musical score, compelling narration and characters and fun sound effects from the award-winning audio CD “Is Love A Fairy Tale?”
3. Touch animations and bring to life the magical world of Wonderhaven!
4. Watch Aoede’s award-winning and enchanting Fairy Tale Love video and play Aoede in Wonderhaven’s Hidden Objects Game on the Resources Page.
ACCOLADES/PRESS
Aoede’s Is Love A Fairy Tale? Audiobook CD (Sep 2012) received the GOLD AWARD from Family Review Center, PREFERRED CHOICE AWARD from Creative Child Magazine, STERLING FUN AWARD from Tillywig Toys, AKADEMIA Music Awards, Children’s Album of the Year from LA Music Awards and an endorsement from KidsFirst and was considered for the 55th Grammy Awards for Best Childrens Album. Additionally, Aoede’ songs “Fairy Tale Love” and “Little Things” from “Is Love A Fairy Tale?” were winners and finalists in the prestigious International Songwriting Competition, John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and National Parenting Publication Awards (NAPPA) Family Faves. The video “Fairy Tale Love” received awards at film festivals as well as Indie Music Channel and Artists in Music Awards.
"Aoede has a lovely soprano voice… This fun production should find a place in most library music collections for children. Beverly Wrigglesworth, San Antonio Public Library, TX " - Beverly Wrigglesworth, San Antonio Public Library, TX, School Library Journal Book Verdict
"Taking cue from the magic of imagination and getting lost in a story, Aoede’s ‘Is Love a Fairy Tale’ captures the innocence and dream world so easily forgotten. Aoede’s mesmerizing, almost ethereal vocals transport the listener to a simpler time. While this album, a children’s album, has greater appeal to tweens, the message is still fun and engaging for all ages… This entire album surprised me, and really just put me in a great mood." - Melissa Kucirek, Hot Indie News
“Through a collage of timeless animation and inspired real-word vignettes, Aoede compels you back to youth and the unshakeable belief in happily ever after… Aoede’s quirky lyrics and fun, catchy hooks laid over well-crafted melodies transport one back to the innocence and magic of childhood. Is Love A Fairy Tale? is a musical journey that, in the end, leaves one tickled and in awe.”
The Akademia Music Awards-BEST MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ALBUM
“I found this collection quite interesting. It was almost like listening to a musical. Each track had some narration and some music but the Is Love A Fairy Tale? CD makes one continuous story. “. - Kerrific Online