songs and music

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songs and music

I've Been Burping in the Classroom

2007
Provides silly, school-themed lyrics to popular tunes.

Over the river and through the wood

1989
An illustrated version of the well-known text describing the joys of a Thanksgiving visit to grandmother's house.

Little white duck

2001
Based on the song of the same title, a little white duck causes a commotion in its pond.

The drover's boy

1997
Presents the lyrics to a song that pays tribute to the Aboriginal women who served as drover's boys in northern Australia in the early part of the twentieth century.

Morning has broken

1996
An illustrated version of the song which celebrates the beauty and elation of the newly breaking morning.

Wheels on the bus

2001
Presents a large-format version of the traditional rhyme about a bus and its passengers, and includes language activities for children and parents.

Outlaws and outcasts

1996
A collection of songs that capture desperate lives that all too often reflect desperate times from the chain gangs of the Deep South to the depression-ravaged streets of New York.

Strange fruit

Billie Holiday, Caf? Society, and an early call for civil rights
2000
Traces the history of "Strange Fruit," a controversial ballad about a lynched African-American man hanging from a tree, popularized by jazz singer Billie Holiday in the 1940s.

The train they call the City of New Orleans

2003
An illustrated version of the familiar song about riding on a train called the City of New Orleans.

12 bugs of Christmas

2004
On each of the twelve days of Christmas, more and more bugs arrive to celebrate the holiday.

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