songs

Presents the popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement. End notes list the benefits of activity songs.

Illustrated lyrics describe the role of the railroad and a train station in a boy's life.

Presents a children's picture book on the patriotic song "My Country Tis of Thee" written and first performed in 1832.

A picture book based on a song from the musical "Guys and Dolls.".

Provides a complete version of the song as well as its historical context and significance. Includes directions for making a Yankee Doodle hat.

Presents the illustrated lyrics to the Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," and includes music notes, a history of the song, and a recipe for johnnycakes.

Provides a history and words to four verses of the song, "America the Beautiful," as well as simple instructions for making a patriotic garden.

An illustrated version of a song which describes how special a son is to his father.

This Southwestern version of the familiar Christmas song features such gifts as ten tamales steaming, six pi?atas swaying, and two prickly pears.

Illustrations accompany the lyrics to twenty-three songs about things that go. Includes a CD recording of all the featured songs.