folk songs, english

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The friendly beasts

[an old English Christmas carol]
2012
An illustrated version of an old English Christmas carol in which animals tell of the gifts they have given to the newborn Jesus.

The 12 days of Christmas

a pop-up celebration
1996
A sophisticated pop-up book which uses white paper cut-outs by paper engineer Robert Sabuda to illustrate the traditional holiday song.

Hilary Knight's The twelve days of Christmas

1981
More and more gifts arrive from a young bear's true love on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

There was an old lady who swallowed a shell!

2006
In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a shell, a crab, a fish, a gull, a pail, some sand, and a wave.

Pete the cat

Old MacDonald had a farm
2014
An illustrated version of the song "Old MacDonald," featuring Pete the Cat.

Old MacDonald had a farm

2003
Presents an illustrated version of the traditional song along with some discussion of its folk origins.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

1999
Presents the traditional song with illustrations on die-cut pages revealing all the old lady swallowed.

Deck the hall

a traditional carol
2000
An illustrated version of the classic Christmas carol celebrating "the season to be jolly.".

Caribbean carnival

songs of the West Indies
1992
A collection of calypso, a uniquely West Indian musical expression.

The farmer in the dell

1998
An illustrated version of the traditional game song accompanied by music.

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