Elephants, I like Elephants.

Maizie's fave.

Write songs like this.

"gotta like frogs! (yeah! yeah!) Running through a maze for some cheese."

What is special about it?
simple, clever, cheeky concept.
fingerpicking guitar - clever "b" and "c" sections with simple 5th modulation structure leading in to a "d" section reminiscent of "a".
repetitive.
kids like animals.

Music Themes: Writing, letters

If I Wrote You - Dar Williams
The Letter - Natalie Merchant

Themes - Music
Minor feel giving way to major resolutions at the end of phrases. - creates melancholy, insistent feel that does resolve phrase after phrase. 
Merchant's melody
fingerpicking -

Themes - Lyrics
Letter-writing to tell one's true feelings, rather than saying.
hopefullness, unrequited love, resignation, the need to express the feeling disregarding the reaction.
Fake idealized relationship ? 

Music Themes: Water

The Ocean - Dar Williams
River - Joni Mitchell
Washing of the Water - Peter Gabriel
The Lighthouse's Tale - Nickel Creek

Themes - Music
undulating melodies, repeated musical themes
warm, calm major chords with moving countermelody lines in different layers
feeling of driving forward, no matter the tempo

Themes - Lyrics
loss, overpowering, 'letting go', cleansing, seeing things from a new perspective that wasn't available before, opening, drowning, inner knowing