Archive for July 20th, 2010
The Songs We Sang, 7/19/2010 at Arlington County Public Library, Westover Branch
Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: July 20, 2010
What a terrific crowd of kids this morning. That was fun!
It was hot outside and we cooked our way through a big stack of books in the children’s section of the gorgeously renovated Westover Branch Library on Washinton Blvd in Arlington County:
- 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)
- “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” (Traditional Words and Tune, Published in A Children’s Treasury of Songs, Illustrated by Linda Bleck
- “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” (Traditional Words and Tune, Published in A Children’s Treasury of Lullabies, Illustrated by Linda Bleck)
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat (Traditional Words and Tune, Words Adapted by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
- A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
- All God’s Critters (Words and Music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
- 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)
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music by John Rox, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
- Frosty the Snowman (Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, Illustrated by Richard Cowdrey)
- Animal Fair (Traditional Tune, Words Adapted by Ponder Goembel, Illustrated by Ponder Goembel)
- Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Words and music by Jimmy Kennedy, Illustrated by Alexandra Day)
- “Rubber Duckie” (Words by Jeff Moss, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier)
- “Sesame Street Theme” (Words by Bruce Hart, Jon Stone, and Joe Raposo, Music by Joe Raposo, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier (A post about this Singable Picture Book will be published in the next couple of days!)
- You’re a Grand Old Flag (Words and music by George M. Cohan, Illustrated by Warren Kimble)
