The Marvelous Toy, A Singable Picture Book

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: September 28, 2011

In: Art of Singing a Song | Case for Singable Books | Heartfelt Musings | Lyrics | Singable Book Title | Singable Picture Book Video | Song History | Vocal Tracks
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The Marvelous Toy is one of the all time Sing Books faves and it is high time to give this terrific book its own post!

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The Marvelous Toy
Words and Music by Tom Paxton
Illustrated by Steve Cox

This book, illustrated by Steve Cox, comes with a CD that includes Tom Paxton singing his song, but a second instrumental track so you can sing the book yourself.

Another illustration of the song, by Elizabeth Sales, can be sung with the same tracks that are included with Steve Cox’s version.

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The Marvelous Toy
Words and Music by Tom Paxton
Illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles

Tom Paxton sings his own song with the help of his grandson (and funny panting dog in the background),

http://vimeo.com/12995222

Click here to purchase or preview Tom Paxton’s original recording of his song:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Marvelous-Toy-LP-Version/dp/B00123FPQS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1317052239&sr=1-2

Online music sellers like iTunes and Amazon sell many recordings of many artists’ (like Peter Paul & Mary and The Irish Rovers)versions of this fun, whimsical song

Peter Paul & Mary sing “The Marvelous Toy,”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIl8JMkPylM

An animated version,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmyxTm6hkg

Info and interesting links about Steve Cox’s illustration of The Marvelous Toy on Tom Paxton’s website:
http://www.tompaxton.com/

An interesting Wiki article about Tom Paxton, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Paxton
This link contains a couple intresting tidbits about “The Marvelous Toy.”

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10/19/2011

On “The Marvelous Toy” and the kazoo…

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The Marvelous Toy
Words and Music by Tom Paxton
Illustrated by Steve Cox

The Marvelous Toy comes packaged with a vocal and instrumental CD, so you can sing along and it just happens to be in a perfect sing-along key and exactly matches the book’s lyrics. The track includes an instrumental break, however, and to fill the time, I play the kazoo. It’s so much fun! The kids can bop their heads and tap their knees and I get to do a little kazoo solo improv.

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