Sing Books with Emily, the Blog

A darlin’ little fella turned 3 and I had the pleasure to sing at his birthday party today.  He’s an animal lover, so you’ll find lots of critters to love in this stack of songs:

• ABC’s (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus…me!)
• ZYX’s (Traditional Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus) (The children broke out into this song and sang it all by themselves.  Wonderful!) (Sing this traditional tune long with me at: http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily)
• A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
• One Elephant Went Out to Play (Classic Books with Holes) (Traditional Words and Tune, Sing to the tune of “5 little Ducks,” Illustrated by Sanja Rescek)
• All God’s Critters (Words and Music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
• If You’re Happy and You Know It: Jungle Edition (Words adapted by James Warhola, Traditional tune, Illustrated by James Warhola)
• Knick Knack Paddy Whack (Traditional words and tune, Musical arrangement by Mark Collins, Illustrated by Christiane Engel)
• Old MacNoah Had an Ark (Traditional Tune, Words Adapted by Sally Lloyd-Jones, Illustrated by Jill Newton)
• I Love you A Bushel and a Peck (Words and Music by Frank Loesser, Illustrated by Rosemary Wells)
• Going to the Zoo (Words and Music by Tom Paxton, Illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt)
• I’m a Manatee (Words by John Lithgow, Music by Bill Elliott, Illustrated by Ard Hoyt)
• I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music by John Rox, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
• Owl and the Pussycat (Poem by Edward Lear, Illustrated by Jan Brett, Sung with Tune by Lorraine Nelson Wolf and Janene Ping)

I got to sing a book today that I’d never sung before:

Old MacNoah Had an Ark
Traditional Tune (Sing to the tune of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”)
Words adapted by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Illustrated by Jill Newton

Happy Birthday!