There’s a lot of children’s music out there and Stefan Shepherd listens to most of it — usually about 250 new CDs a year. His blog, zooglobble.com, surveys the vast landscape of children’s music to help parents find what’s good for kids and, it is hoped, for parents.

There are plenty of kid-oriented groups — like The Sippy Cups, The Deedle Deedle Dees and The Jelly Dots — that Sheperd thinks parents can live with, even when it’s on endless repeat in the car. 

“What is good about kids’ music is also good about adult music: musicianship, quality production values [and] subjects they are interested in,” he says. Some adult groups, like The Shins, Ziggy Marley and The White Stripes, also appeal to kids. 

Shepard is arranging a series of concerts at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix (he brought Gustafer Yellowgold in March) and he can be heard occasionally talking about kids’ music on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Out of the limelight, Shepherd, of Phoenix, works for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at the Arizona Legislature. The father of two children (Margaret, 7, and David, 3), he got his start reviewing children’s music by writing for the North Central Parenting Group newsletter in 2001. He moved Zooglobble to the web in 2004.