The Songs We Sang, 02/27/2010

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: March 1, 2010

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A wonderful group of friends, Silver and Gold, came out to Sing Books at Aladdin’s Lamp Bookstore on Saturday morning.  We warbled our way through a glorious stack of Singable Picture Books:

• ABC’s and ZYX’s (Traditional Words and Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus…me!)
• “Twinkle Little Star” (Poem by Jane Taylor, Traditional Tune, From Usborne First Picture Nursery Rhymes, Illustrated by Jo Litchfield)
• “Baa, Baa Blacksheep” (Traditional Words and Tune, From Usborne First Picture Nursery Rhymes, Illustrated by Jo Litchfield)
• “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat” (Traditional Words and Tune, Words Adapted by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
• A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
• The Sparrow (Words, Music, and Illustration by Jill Leger)
• Waltzing Matilda (Poem by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson, Traditional Tune Adapted and Arranged by Christina Macphearson, Illustrated by Desmond Digby)
• Going to the Zoo (Words and Music by Tom Paxton, Illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt)
• I Love you A Bushel and a Peck (Words and Music by Frank Loesser, Illustrated by Rosemary Wells)
• All God’s Critters (Words and Music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
• Knick Knack Paddy Whack (Traditional Words and Tune, Arrangements by Mark Collins, Illustrations by Christiane Engel)
• Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name (Traditional Words and Tune,
  Illustrated by Tedd Arnold)
• The Marvelous Toy (Words and Music by Tom Paxton, Illustrated by Steve Cox)
• All Things Bright and Beautiful (Words by Cecil Francis Alexander, Traditional Tune Arranged by William H. Monk, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan)