It would be easy to assume that Lisa Loeb’s foray into children’s music happened after she had children herself.

But the first children’s album from the chart-topping ’90s pop singer-songwriter predated her daughter’s birth by six years. The inspiration for 2003’s Catch the Moon was not her kids’ childhood, but her own.

“I just loved growing up, my childhood, and I think I’ve always had a nostalgic connection with my childhood and a lot of the music and entertainment I enjoyed as a kid,” says Loeb, 57, who grew in Dallas and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, TV producer Roey Hershkovitz, and children, Lyla, 15, and Emet, 13.

From TV shows like The Carol Burnett Show and the early days of Sesame Street to albums like Marlo Thomas’ Free to Be You and Me and Carole King’s Really R

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