Singable Picture Books in the Scholastic Video Collection, Part 1
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 10, 2010
The Scholastic Video Collection features Singable Picture Books!
Video:
Where the Wild Things Are…and other Maurice Sendak stories
![Where the Wild Things Are and Other Maurice Sendak Stories (Scholastic Video Collection) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517EN5DK2KL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Features Singable Books:
The Nutshell Kids from
The Nutshell Library
Words by Maurice Sendak
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Music written and sung by Carole King
(Includes the songs “Alligators All Around,” “Pierre,” “One Was Johnny,” and “Chicken Soup with Rice”)
Video:
Ezra Jack Keats’ The Little Drummer Boy…and 4 more holiday stories
Features Singable Book 1/2:
The Little Drummer Boy
Words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, and Harry Simeone
Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
Features Singable Book 2/2:
Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Robert Broomfield
Video:
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly…and more stories that sing
![There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly... and More Stories That Sing (Scholastic Video Collection) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YT65VETGL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Features Singable Books 1/2:
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Traditional Words and Music
Additional Words and Adaptations by Simms Taback
Illustrated by Simms Taback
Features Singable Books 2/2:
Arctic Antics
Words by Judy Sierra
Music by Robert Reynolds & Scotty Huff
Illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey
Each Peach Pear Plum
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 9, 2010
Pause on each page of this Children’s Classic to sing the tune it pictures…
Each Peach Pear Plum
Written and Illustrated by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
“I spy Tom Thumb”
For “Tommy Thumb” lyrics and a link to sing-along track, click here:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/jimrule/tommythumb.htm
“I spy Mother Hubbard”
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002E6YQ3U/ref=dm_dp_trk19?ie=UTF8&qid=1265651392&sr=8-1
Text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mother_Hubbard
“I spy Cinderella”
Text from ”A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” sung by Cinderella in the Disney movie, on page 142-143 of:
Add a Little Magic
Published by Disney Press
Sing Along: http://www.amazon.com/Karaoke-version-Without-Backgrounds-Cinderella/dp/B002P8E1UK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1265662486&sr=1-4
“I spy the Three Bears”
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Words and Music by Michael Rosen
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Watch and listen to Michael Rosen sing the song in his book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc0U2WAz4s
“I spy Baby Bunting”
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Bye-Baby-Bunting/dp/B0013QYN8A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265663128&sr=8-1
Text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye,_baby_Bunting
“I spy Bo-Peep”
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Bo-Peep/dp/B001HE3DMU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1265663371&sr=1-3
Text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bo_Peep
“I spy Jack and Jill”
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Jill/dp/B001PP4OCO/ref=sr_1_141?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265663648&sr=1-141
Text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(nursery_rhyme)
“I spy the Wicked Witch”
![The Adventures of Isabel [With CD] [ADV OF ISABEL W/CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H-P16D8xL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
The Adventures of Isabel
Words by Ogden Nash
Illustrated by Bridget Taylor
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Isabel-Night-Near-Bog/dp/B0027RAIVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265664089&sr=1-1
Text Here: http://www.eliteskills.com/analysis_poetry/Adventures_Of_Isabel_by_Ogden_Nash_analysis.php
Isabel runs into a Wicked Witch, “But she turned the witch into milk and drank her.”
“I spy Robin Hood”
Text and printed music here:
Song of Robin Hood
Compiled and Edited by Anne Malcolmson
Music Arranged by Grace Castagnetta
Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
“Robin Hood and Little John” a spirited dance tune on pgs. 10-11
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Robin-Hood-and-Little-John/dp/B0012JE7UC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265665667&sr=8-1-catcorr
“I spy the Bears Again”
(See Above!)
“THEY spy Baby Bunting”
(See Above!)
“I spy Plum Pie”
“Little Jack Horner” text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner
Tune here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Jack-Horner-Karaoke-Version/dp/B001HJ9UM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265666213&sr=1-1
“I spy EVERYONE”
A great song to go with this page, here sung by John Lithgow: “Everyone Says ‘I Love You’”:
http://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Says-I-Love-You/dp/B002KW85FI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265666473&sr=8-1
Everyone Says I Love You
Illustrated by Beegee Tolpa
(This book does not follow the song, but it is real cute!)
PS: Post #100!
Building Blocks, Singing Rhymes
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 8, 2010
Mother Goose Building Blocks (Build to Learn, Learn to Build)
Illustrated by Len Ebert based on the illustrations of Blanche Fisher Wright
Here’s a fun way to sing a few nursery rhymes! Build a tower of blocks and sing the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme songs which are printed on the blocks using Rebus Pictograms for some of the words. The remaining sides of each block are printed with numbers, letters, and a full illustration for the rhyme. The side with numbers counts out the rhyme ”One, two, buckle my shoe.”
The illustrations on this set of nesting blocks are based on Blanche Fisher Wright’s “The Real Mother Goose.”
To help you remember the tunes, I’ve selected sing along tracks to go with the blocks. Just click on the links to hear to clips or purchase the tracks:
Block A, “Queen of Hearts”:
Track 6 of the cd that comes packaged with
Nursery Rhymes
Illustrated by Louise Shrigley
(This books includes a sing-along CD with tracks arranged by Andrew Dodge and sung by Stefanie Moore, “Queen of Hearts” is Track 6 )
Block B/C/D, “Pat-a-Cake”:
http://www.amazon.com/Karaoke-Pat-A-Cake/dp/B0014MOZ9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265646681&sr=8-1
Block E/F/G, “Here sits the Lord Mayor”:
You can sing this to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”
Here are the words to the rhyme, in case the Rebus Puzzle has you puzzled:
Here sits the Lord Mayor
Here sits the Lord Mayor;
Here sit his two men;
Here sits the cock;
Here sits the hen;
Here sit the little chickens;
Here they run in,
Chin-chopper, chin-chopper,
Chin-chopper, chin!
Block H/I/J, “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep“:
Sing this to the same tune at the “ABC song” and “Twinkle Little Star”
Block K/L/M, “Hey, Diddle Diddle”:
http://www.amazon.com/Hey-Diddle-Karaoke-Version/dp/B001HI8MVI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265646261&sr=8-2
Block N/O/P, “Humpty Dumpty”:
http://www.amazon.com/Humpty-Dumpty-Karaoke-Version/dp/B001HJ4XH4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265646313&sr=8-2
Block Q/R/S, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”:
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Quite-Contrary-Karaoke/dp/B000RGD5N6/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265646454&sr=1-1-fkmr0
Block T/U/V, “Ladybug, Ladybug”:
http://www.amazon.com/Ladybird/dp/B0035KEU4Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265647288&sr=1-1
Most of the time, you will see this rhyme printed as “Ladybird” (another name for a “ladybug”).
Block W/X/Y, “Rain, Go Away”:
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Raining-Pouring-Rain-Away/dp/B000SFJRJW/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1265647517&sr=8-2-fkmr0
(This is the same tune as “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring!”)
Block Z, “Jack be nimble”:
http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Be-Nimble/dp/B0026I0YQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1265647819&sr=8-1
In the Bleak Midwinter (The February Blizzard of 2010)
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 7, 2010
I remember some serious snowstorms in my youth. But never in all my days do I recall a winter storm with snow as deep as what is piled up outside my door in Arlington, VA. We already had snow on the ground when this storm began. AND, the weather man says that more snow is on the way later in the week…snow on snow on snow…
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)
All this snow on snow reminds me of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter.” A beautiful Christmas poem which can be sung. Rossetti writes of a winter in which ”Snow had fallen, snow on snow, / Snow on snow, /In the bleak mid-winter /Long ago.”
In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Rossetti
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
I found the first verse of the poem illustrated is Roger Priddy’s sweet book of Sing-Along Christmas Carols.
Sing-Along Christmas Carols (Board book)
Illustrated by Roger Priddy
My favorite setting of this song is by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) and it can be heard many recordings.
The printed music is available online by clicking here:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/PDF/cranham.pdf
Historical information on the song and poem also available by clicking here: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/in_the_bleak_midwinter.htm
For singing along, I love the guitar rendition by John Fahey (Track 14):
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Guitar-Vol-John-Fahey/dp/B0000003O7/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265481694&sr=8-9
A Few Favorite Singable Books, Part 39
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 7, 2010
Gobble It Up (A Fun Song About Eating)
Words and Music by Jim Arnosky
Illustrated by Jim Arnosky
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Traditional Tune
Words Adapted by Rosemary Wells
Illustrated by Rosemary Wells
Easter Bunny’s on His Way
Words by Brian James
Illustrated by Dara Goldman
Sing to the tune of “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain When She Comes”
A Few Favorite Singable Books, Part 38
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 6, 2010
Creature ABC
Photography by Andrew Zuckerman
Sing with the ABC Song!
(OH MY GOSH! This is a gorgeous book. The amazing photography, and subjects, make this book a work of art.)
Jingle Bells
Traditional Tune
Words Adapted by Iza Trapani
Illustrated by Iza Trapani
Hickory Dickory Dock
Traditional Tune
Words Adapted/Additional Words by Keith Baker
Illustrated by Keith Baker
A Few Favorite Singable Books, Part 37
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 5, 2010
The Cat in the Hat Songbook (19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers)
Words by Dr. Seuss
Music by Eugene Poddany
Illustrated by Dr. Seuss
The Clock Struck One (A Time-Telling Tale)
Traditional Tune
Additional Words/Adapted by Trudy Harris
Illustrated by Carrie Hartman
Feliz Navidad
Words and Music by Jose Feliciano
Illustrated by David Diaz
The Songs We Sang, 02/03/2010 (Aladdin’s Lamp Bookstore!)
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 5, 2010
Arlington got a furious little snowstorm on Tuesday night. Despite the weather, we had a full gathering of friends to sing these books at Aladdin’s Lamp on Wednesday morning:
- A-You’re Adorable (Words and music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Martha Alexander)
- All Things Bright and Beautiful (Words by Cecil Francis Alexander, Traditional tune, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan)
- All God’s Critters (Words and music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
- Farmer in the Dell (Traditional words and tune, Illustrated by Ilse Plume) (We sang this song with music box accompaniment from the Fisher Price wind up musical TV/Radio)
- Marvelous Toy (Words and music by Tom Paxton, Illustrated by Steve Cox)
- Catalina Magdelena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name (Words adapted by Tedd Arnold, Traditional tune, Illustrated by Tedd Arnold)
- God Bless America (Words and Music by Irving Berlin, Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger)
- I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon (Words and Music by Jeff Moss, Illustrated by me!)
- Selections From: A Children’s Treasury of Songs, Illustrated by Linda Bleck), we sang:
“Itsy Bitsy Spider” (Traditional Words and Tune with additional/second verse of “Eensy Weensy Spider” by Raffi
“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Do You Know the Muffin Man” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Pop Goes the Weasel” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Yankee Doodle” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” (Traditional Words and Tune) - Wheels on the Racecar (Traditional tune, Words by Alexander Zane, Illustrated by James Warhola)
The Songs We Sang, 02/02/2010
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: February 3, 2010
Today’s gathering at Tuckahoe Elementary had a shine of new-ness about it.
New songs explored, some old songs sung in new ways. Lots of fun!
- I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon (Words and Music by Jeff Moss, Illustrated by me!)
- All Things Bright and Beautiful (Words by Cecil Francis Alexander, Traditional Tune, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan)
- Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by James Marshall)
- The Farmer in the Dell (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Ilse Plume), we sang this with music from the Fisher Price TV-Radio toy
- Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin (Words by Lloyd Moss, Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, Sing to the tune of “Reuben, Reuben”)
- God Bless America (Words and Music by Irving Berlin, Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger)
- Yankee Doodle, A Song from the American Revolution (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Todd Ouren)
- “Itsy Bitsy Spider“ (Traditional Words and Tune, Published in A Children’s Treasury of Songs, Illustrated by Linda Bleck), with additional/second verse of “Eensy Weensy Spider” by Raffi
