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Overview
Grab a copy of Children's Songbag and get ready for some musical fun! This great collection includes music and lyrics to over 50 of the best-loved children's songs. It also offers fun facts, activities, and additional lyrics for songs. Whether you are at the piano, on a road trip, or singing around the campfire, Children's Songbag provides hours of entertainment.
Synopsis
Children instinctively love to sing and follow along with songs. Authors Paul and Jennifer Swender have collected 50 fun and easy songs in this delightful new book, a virtual songbag of children's favorites. Many will be familiar, some will be brand new to little ears, but all are well-loved. The songs are accompanied by sheet music, fun facts, games, activities, and additional lyrics.
The book is compact and easy to carry, and lies flat to keep the book open while at the piano, around the campfire, or playing guitar. Children's Songbag offers endless hours of music, entertainment, and plain old fun, with songs like "The Bear Went Over the Mountain," "Do Your Ears Hang Low," and "America the Beautiful," and many more. You don't need to read music or play an instrument to enjoy this activity book. Just pick it up and introduce the joy of singing and music-making to children everywhere!
Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender are a husband-and-wife team living in Brooklyn, New York. Paul has coauthored three books with musician Pete Seeger. Jennifer is an early childhood education and curriculum developer. They are also the authors of the highly acclaimed My Subway Ride.
Publishers Weekly
Singers can lift their voices to merry tunes thanks to Children's Songbag by Paul Dubois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender. The spiral-bound book boasts 50 songs to sing, including "America the Beautiful," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "The Muffin Man" and other highly recognizable ditties. Recipes, history lessons and melody lines abound. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
Singers can lift their voices to merry tunes thanks to Children's Songbag by Paul Dubois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender. The spiral-bound book boasts 50 songs to sing, including "America the Beautiful," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "The Muffin Man" and other highly recognizable ditties. Recipes, history lessons and melody lines abound. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.Children's Literature
This neat spiral bound book is perfect for opening flat on a piano or a music stand. Most of the fifty songs in this collection are old favorites, like "Bingo," "America the Beautiful," "Down by the Bay," and "London Bridge." A few, like "Crawly Creepy Little Mousie," are a bit more obscure. Each song has sheet music, with lyrics on the left-hand page, and includes chord progressions that can be read by guitarists. On the pages facing each song are instructions for special actions to go along with the words, games, some interesting traditions, any alternate versions, related recipes, and historical notes about the particular song. The page for "Mary Had a Little Lamb" states that the first recording of a human voice was the inventor Thomas Edison chanting, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the year 1877. Throughout the book, tiny illustrations of trumpets, guitars, maracas, harmonicas, music notes, and other musical symbols decorate the pages. 2005, Gibbs Smith, Ages Adult.—Sally J. K. Davies