microphone question

[Jan Edwards]

Hi everyone,

After years of using head-mounted microphones with young children, I've
decided to go back
to using a table-top microphone.  I have never gotten great quality with
head-mounted microphones
(even very good ones) and some of the youngest children have been reluctant
to wear them.
Can anyone recommend a good unidirectional or cardioid tabletop microphone
that they have
been happy with?  We are often recording at preschools (in our own room,
but there is always noise
from the hall and from other rooms), so external noise combined with quiet
little two-year-old voices
is an issue.  Thanks so much.

Yours,
Jan Edwards