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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sing-along stories

The Sing-Along Stories series features classic songs adapted with creativity by Mary Hobermann. We love the illustrations by Nadine Bernard Westcott too. Some of the books also come in box sets that provide three board books and a cassette tape.


While the board books are very nice, the non-board book versions include extra pages with sheet music for the song's melody and some suggested extra activities to do with your child after reading the book.

The first one we read was Skip to My Lou--we later found out that a few pages from the original hardback/paperback version were removed when the board book version was created, so I definitely recommend the non-board book version for this particular book.

Miss Mary Mack is a hand-clapping rhyme about a girl and a jumping elephant. The Lady with the Alligator Purse begins with the familiar "Miss Lucy" song and ends with a surprising twist. We also like Bill Grogan's Goat, which features a shirt-eating goat and his messy animal companions. Other titles in the series include Yankee Doodle, Mary Had a Little Lamb, and There Once Was a Man Named Michael Finnegan, and The Eensy-Weensy Spider.





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