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The Songs We Sang, 12/7/2010
Posted on: December 7, 2010
We had a wonderful time celebrating Hanukkah and the coming Winter Season in Ms. Anctil’s K class this morning. Oooooo that sea of cute faces, open minds and fresh little voices fills my heart with joy.
Here are the Singable Picture Books we sang today:
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Five Little Gefiltes
Traditional Tune (Sing to the tune of “Five Little Ducks”)
Words Adapted by Dave Horowitz
Illustrated by Dave Horowitz
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Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth
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I Have a Little Dreidel
Traditional Tune
Words by Maxie Baum
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis
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The Marvelous Toy
Words and Music by Tom Paxton
Illustrated by Steve Cox
(This book is a far and away favorite with the Kindergarten set. It comes with a wonderful CD that has Tom Paxton singing on one track with a separate instrumental track, including a clearly played melody line, so you can sing solo…a wonderful edition!)
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My Favorite Things
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers
Illustrations by Renee Graef
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Frosty the Snowman
Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins
Illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
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Jingle Bells, A Pop-up Holiday Song
Traditional tune
Poem excerpt by James Lord Pierpont
Illustrated by Eren Blanquet Unten
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Poem by Robert Frost
Illustrated by Susan Jeffers
(Can be sung to the tune of “Greensleeves)
From New York Times Book Review, another endorsement for books with illustrations
Posted on: December 7, 2010
I wasn’ the only person horrified by an October 2010 New York Times Article article about waning sales of picture books (resulting from chapter book snobbery of parents pushing their kids to read “more advanced” material) causing publishers to curtail their support of the genre.
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/astonished-by-new-york-times-article/
This past Sunday’s New York Times Book Review published an article by Leah Hager Cohen reviewing Maira Kalman’s new illustrated book for grown-ups and weighing in to support the use of pictures in books, not just to add entertainment, but to add a dose of the sublime…
Sunday, 12/5/2010
Article from NY Times Book Review about Maira Kalman’s illustrated book for grown-ups, including a wonderful endorsement in support of the illustrations in books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Cohen-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=americana,%20holiday%20books&st=cse
From the article by Leah Hager Cohen,”…Words are nice, but pictures are sublime. Picture books provide a portal not only to the love of literature…rich with sensory-emotional connections and lying, crucially, beyond the reach of language…From such explorations we may emerge wiser, rounder…Human-er.”
In this article, Leah Hager Cohen reviews Maira Kalman’s new book,
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And the Pursuit of Happiness
Text and Illustrations by Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman has illustrated at least one Singable Picture Book,
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Stay Up Late
Words and Music by David Byrne
Illustrated by Maira Kalman
