His skill is so great that each year, each child of the Forest would receive a toy. A well-told, intriguing tale of how a skilled carver, Claus, who lives in the Old Forest of the North Country, came to be Santa Claus. He and his wife, Midge, have raised two daughters, Jennifer and Kate. Tom Paxton lives in East Hampton, New York, when he is not on tour. Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe praised Tom Paxton for "applying the same tools he developed for adult audiences to his children's songs, giving them an intelligence, wit and lack of condescension too rarely heard in today's booming children's music market."
"But, most important, I have a real sense of discovery in having found yet another place where I belong." "I love the way books inspire songs and vice versa," he says. His children's music has led him into a successful new career as a picture-book author. Paxton is also finding ways to influence a new generation through such beloved children's songs as "My Dog's Bigger Than Your Dog," "Going to the Zoo," and "The Marvelous Toy." Under his children's label, Pax Records, he has released several acclaimed albums, including Suzy Is a Rocker, winner of the prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Medal. Paxton's songs, inspired by everything from family love to homelessness and recorded by such diverse stars as Willie Nelson and Placido Domingo, have stirred the emotions of three decades of audiences. No one told them to, or directed them-they just were. Philip Elwood of the San Francisco Examiner noted, "What seemed like the entire audience was singing along.
He has created six songbooks, thirty-two albums, and countless memorable concerts.
He hosted the acclaimed BBC Radio series "Tom Paxton's America" and was chosen as honorary chairman of the board of the World Folk Music Association. His classic songs, including "Ramblin' Boy," "The Last Thing on My Mind," and "Bottle of Wine," have won him the admiration of fans all over the world. Tom Paxton has been an integral part of the folk music community since the Greenwich Village scene of the early sixties. Tom Paxton, author of The Story of the Tooth Fairy and The Story of Santa Claus, lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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