Posts Tagged ‘Maurice Sendak’
The Scholastic Video Collection features Singable Picture Books!
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Scholastic Video Collection:
Ezra Jack Keats’ The Little Drummer Boy…and 4 more holiday stories
“Ezra Jack Keats’ The Little Drummer Boy…and 4 more holiday stories” features two Singable Picture Books:
The Little Drummer Boy
Words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, and Harry Simeone
Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
and
Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Robert Broomfield
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Scholastic Video Collection:
Strega Nona… and More Caldecott Award-Winning Folk Tales (Scholastic Video Collection)
This video features the Singable Picture Book “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat” by Simms Taback
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Simms Taback
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Scholastic Video Collection:
Swimmy…and more classic Leo Lionni stories
Features Aliki Brandenburg’s Illustration of “Hush, Little Baby,”
Hush Little Baby
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Aliki Brandenburg
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Scholastic Video Collection:
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly…and more stories that sing
“There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly…and more stories that sing” features two Singable Picture Books:
Arctic Antics
Words by Judy Sierra
Music by Robert Reynolds & Scotty Huff
Illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey
and
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Traditional Words and Music
Additional Words and Adaptations by Simms Taback
Illustrated by Simms Taback
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Scholastic Video Collection:
Where the Wild Things Are…and other Maurice Sendak stories
features the Singable Picture Books in,
The Nutshell Kids from
The Nutshell Library
Words by Maurice Sendak
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Music written and sung by Carole King
(Includes the songs “Alligators All Around,” “Pierre,” “One Was Johnny,” and “Chicken Soup with Rice“)
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Related Posts
SIMMS TABACK
The Singable Picture Books of Author/Illustrator Simms Taback
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-singable-picture-books-of-simms-taback/
The Nutshell Library
Words by Maurice Sendak
Illustrations by Maurice Sendak
(Contains 4 books: Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, and One Was Johnny; Tunes for all 4 books written by Carole King)
The Nutshell Library, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak is like a joyful packet of “Everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten” with counting, alphabets, humor, months, mischief, and morality plays encased in a decorated cardboard box.
As a kid I was entralled with the mini-books, bright red bindings wrapped in shades of green and blue dust jackets, contained in a little box all their own, fancifully illustrated with pictures by that fantastic fella that wrote “Where the Wild Things Are.”
Mix this with tunes written and sung by Carole King and I was in kid heaven.
May many more kids enjoy singing these Singable Books:
Alligators All Around (An Alphabet)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Chicken Soup with Rice (A Book of Months)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Pierre (A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
One Was Johnny (A Counting Book)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
The printed music for all these songs (plus a couple of others), and including text and illustrations in a theatrical setting, are found in the Singable Book:
Really Rosie (Starring the Nutshell Kids)
Words by Maurice Sendak
Music by Carole King
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
(This book captures the action from “Really Rosie,” the 1975 TV Special on CBS)
Read the Wikipedia entry for “Really Rosie” here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Rosie
Hear all the songs on the terrific “Really Rose” CD, performed by the great Carole King!
