The Singable Picture Books of Santa Claus

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: December 17, 2010

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My daughter Eloise made a cute picture and it put me in the mood to sing about Santa!

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All the Singable Picture Books in this article sing about Santa!

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The Christmas Song: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
Words and Music by Mel Torme and Robert Wells
Illustrated by Doris Barrette

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Here Comes Santa Claus
Words and Music by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman
Illustrated by Bruce Whatley

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I Like Winter
Words and Music by Lois Lenski
Illustrated by Lois Lenski
ISBN 0-375-81068-4

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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Words and Music by John Rox
Illustrations by Bruce Whatley

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Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Traditional Tune
Words by Anonymous
Illustrations by Andrea Gabriel

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Must Be Santa
Word Adapted by Tim Moore
Words and Music by Hal Moore and Bill Fredricks
Illustrated by Pete Whitehead
Sing with Mitch Miller on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42_vCV2_gf0

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The Night Before Christmas
Poem by Clement C. Moore
Performed by Peter, Paul and Mary
Solo Performance of Music Setting by Noel PAUL Stookey
Music by Noel Paul Stookey
Illustrated by Eric Puybaret
(This book comes packaged with a CD recording of Noel Paul Stookey’s performance of “Night Before Christmas” as well as a reading by Mary Travers, and Peter, Paul and Mary’s recording of “A’Soalin”)

There are MANY versions of , click the following link to see as many of the other illustrations as I’ve so far been able to gather:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/singable-picture-book-spotlight-the-night-before-christmas/

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The Rooftop Hop
Words and Music by Michael Sheahan
Illustrated by Doug Wright

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Words and Music by Johnny Marks
Published by World International Publishing Limited, Great Britain, 1989
ISBN #: 7235-8891-0
This is the only copy I’ve ever found of “Rudolph” the SONG. All other Rudolphs I’ve found have been the original story book by Robert L. May (the story upon which the song is based). It will be great fun to sing the song with the youngsters. They are going to love it!

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Original Story by Robert L. May
Written for Montgomery Ward Department Store in 1939
Illustrated by Denver Gillen
Set to Music by Johnny Marks (1948)
(I created a sing-along book for Johnny Mark’s tune with the Denver Gillen Illustrations. Fun to sing!)

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Santa Baby
Original Song Composed by Joan Javits, Phil Springer and Tony Springer
Words Adapted by Janie Bynum
Illustrated by Janie Bynum

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Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Word and Music by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie
Illustrated by Steven Kellogg

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Santa’s Song (Pop-Up Fun)
By Dug Steer
ISBN #: 978-0761315315

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Stories of Santa (Up on the Housetop, Jolly Old St. Nicholas)
Words and Music by (or attributed to), Benjamin Russell Hanby
Illustrated by “Hallmark Archives and Design Collection”

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Up on the Housetop
Words and Music by Benjamin Hanby
Illustrated by Robert Snyder

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I like Lois Lenski’s picture of Santa

From:
I Like Winter
Words and Music by Lois Lenski
Illustrated by Lois Lenski
ISBN 0-375-81068-4

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Santa, Rudlph, my son Mo and the coming of Christmas…

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