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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