When You Wish Upon a Star, A Singable Picture Book

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: August 29, 2011

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A gorgeous new Singable Picture Book was just published:

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When You Wish Upon a Star
Music by Ned Washington
Words by Leigh Harline
Illustrated by Eric Puybaret

Publisher’s webpage for “When You Wish Upon a Star”
http://www.imaginebks.com/children/WhenYouWish.html

This beautiful book includes the song’s wonderful introduction which is not often heard or sung.

The book includes a CD with folk great Judy Collins singing the song, but she speaks the introduction and does not sing it…

Neil Diamond came through with the introduction in this video, you can use the video to sing along with the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llbmp0rfv1Y

Glen Miller’s band does not play the intro, but this is a terrific recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOyzSJSNqIM

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“When You Wish Upon a Star” was written for the great Disney animated feature, PINOCCHIO.

Informative wiki article about the song, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_upon_a_Star

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Imagine Publishing has really done amazingly wonderful work for the world of Singable Picture Books, putting out artistically gorgeous books for song, including:

• Day is Done
• The Marvelous Toy
• The Night Before Christmas
• Over the Rainbow
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• Waking Up is Hard to Do
• When You Wish Upon a Star

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Tags: Eric Puybaret, Leigh Harline, Ned Washington, Pinocchio