songs

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Earthsong

1998
Verses about various animals, from one right whale calf to eleven gray wolf pups and on to fifty python eggs, present the plight of some threatened species. Includes information about the different animals mentioned.

Sunday in Kyoto

2009
Presents rhyming text and illustrations depicting musicians playing various instruments in different settings, with lyrics and a CD containing fourteen songs and printable files with illustrations and lyrics.

Fiestas

a year of Latin American songs of celebration
2002
Presents over twenty songs and rhymes from Spanish-speaking countries, focusing on selections that honor Latin American holidays and culture. Presented in Spanish and English, with background information, and music notation.

The cat came back

a traditional song
1992
A persistent and indestructible cat keeps coming back, despite his owner's attempts to give him away.

Hello muddah, hello faddah

(a letter from camp)
2004
An illustrated version of the song in which a young camper describes all of the horrors of Camp Granada and begs his parents to let him come home.

Take me out to the ballgame

1993
The lyrics of the familiar song, illustrated by pictures based on the World Series games played between the Dodgers and the Yankees in 1949 in Ebbets Field.

My father

1989
A shared dream carries family members out of their drab life into a finer world of music and travel, a dream later fulfilled by the youngest daughter when she becomes a parent herself.

The season for singing

American Christmas songs and carols
1974
Includes words and music to fifty-one Christmas carols and songs from various American cultures and parts of the country.

One little goat

a Passover song
1979
After a little goat is eaten by a cat, trouble cumulates until the Holy One puts things right. The song is sung at the end of the Seder on Passover.

Hello muddah, hello faddah

(a letter from camp)
2006
A young camper writes a letter to his parents about the horrors of Camp Granada and begs to come home, but when it stops raining and the sun appears, things suddenly look much brighter.

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