KIDS’ STUFF: Would you trust your kids...

KIDS’ STUFF: Would you trust your kids with, say, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Or Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys? They’re two of the alternative-rockers singing on a children’s album being assembled now by Mary’s Danish guitarist David King while his band is on a break.

Others taking roles in the musical adventure of Meeps, a previously undiscovered species of the rain forest, are Kate Pierson of the B-52’s, Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, X’s John Doe, Chad of the Chili Peppers, Julie Ritter and Gretchen Seager of Mary’s Danish and members of Primus, Toad the Wet Sprocket, School of Fish, dada and the Posies.

“Originally it was going to be for kids 3 to 7 years old, but now we want it to be for 3 to 30,” says King, who is supervising the project with musicians Billy Lincoln and John Nau and writer Nick Griffin. The album, tentatively titled “Primary Colors,” is planned for a late-summer release from Rhino Records.

“The idea was not to treat kids like kids,” King says.