songs and music

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

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.

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.

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

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

Join Spinoza and his circle of friends in the Great North Woods as they discover why animals of the forest and colors of the rainbow are special and why you are special.

In this song based on "The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly," a prehistoric man, contemplating the creation of the world, paints images on the ceiling of a cave, that are later discovered by a young Spanish girl in 1879.

Each of Katy Bear's animal friends wears a different color of clothing to her birthday party.

Rhyming song lyrics ask the reader to find signs of each season in the accompanying photographs.

Pa, Ma, and their children take a trip to the Big Rock Candy Mountain, with its lollipop trees, chocolate fountains, and friendly bears wearing crazy socks.