Bravo! This delightfully entertaining production of the Toy Box is a good alternative to  "Peter and the Wolf" for todays young audience. It's engaging, imaginative, and full of audience participation. I would highly recommend this to any orchestra for their children's concerts.

Carter Nice, Conductor
Bear Valley Music Festival

Round Rolly Polly with Red Ruby Eyes and polka-dot spiders
that jump rope with flies are just some of the amazing and
wonderful characters you'll be introduced to in this orchestral
performance of "The Toy Box".

Music , songs and storytelling abound in this delightfully exuberant production for young audiences as Francie explores the old toy box found in her garage and journey's into "The Toy Box" land where only "Jack the Giant" can bring her home again.

A tiger in a tuxedo, a singing postage stamp and "a bunch of bouncing babies" will be her friends as the adventure taps into children's wonderful imaginations and parents' hearts.

Francie's popular, national-award-wining "Toy Box" CD, and show, have been delighting youngsters for years. Now, this "wonderfully imaginative," "magnetic performer" (Tribune Media Services, Sacramento Bee), heard and seen on radio and TV, offers a completely orchestrated version of her show that will entrance whole new generations of youngsters and the young at heart.