The album earned the #5 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll.  2014's "Wired" earned the #3 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll.  2013's "Deep Sea Diver" earned a #6 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll.  2012's "In Tents" earned a #3 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll.  2011's "Flying" earned the #1 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll.  2010's "The Final Funktier" earned the #4 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll. It earned 4 stars (out of 4) in People Magazine who deemed it "irresistibly fun." 2009's "Field Trip" earned the #3 spot on the annual Fids and Kamily music poll. The album was also selected as an American Library Association Notable Children's Recording. Recess Monkey has earned several #1 hits on Sirius XM's Kids Place Live Channel 78 and have played yearly live shows in the channel's Rumpus Room series since 2008. In 2013, Recess Monkey's bassist emcee Jack Forman became an on-air host on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live, hosting the daily, nationally broadcast call-in show "Live From the Monkey House." The band has played the children's stages at several nationally acclaimed festivals including Lollapalooza in 2010 and 2016, Austin City Limits in 2011, The Life is Good Festival in 2013, Seattle's Northwest Folklife Festival multiple years, and The Bumbershoot Festival in 2009. They have been featured at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles on two occasions, in 2009 and 2013. Recess Monkey is a frequent performer at Performing Arts Centers across North America. Shows have included Symphony Space in New York City, They played the Millennium Stage at The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2011 and The Segerstrom Center For the Arts in Orange County, California. The band has also been featured in several runs of "Big Top Rock" music and circus shows geared for the whole family at Seattle's Teatro ZinZanni, including 2012's "In Tents," 2013's "Tambourine Submarine" 2014's "Curious Circus." and 2015's "Lighter Than Air." The band has played several engagements at Wolf Trap's Children's Theater in the Woods in Vienna, Virginia. Recess Monkey appeared with The Dalai Lama at Seattle's Seeds of Compassion event in 2008, playing to an audience of 50,000 at Qwest Field (now CenturyLink Field).