Go In and Out the Window: An Illustrated Songbook For Children

By Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Published in Association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805006281
• ISBN13: 9780805006285
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 0.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Family Songbook

The combination of beautiful art and classic folk songs is marvelous. Along with many songs I knew well, there are a few lesser-known ones that I'm glad now to know. The sidebar notes add interesting tidbits about the art and/or songs, too. For homeschooling my K & 1st grade children, we made our way through the whole book, singing a song or two each day, and it was a fantastic addition to our curriculum. It is the kind of book that should sit by the piano (if you have one), inviting spontaneous singing.

Keep on your piano

This is a fantastic book to introduce your children to classic folk songs. The piano songs are easy enough to sight read, and the pictures and stories add another layer. If you own a keyboard, and especially if you have a piano, this should be front and center to play and sing for fun. After receiving mine in the mail, I immediately bought another as a gift for a new mother to take with her meal. She and her (band director) husband love it!

The best book for folk songs with history and art.

This book is the best if you want folk songs and classic art combined. I use it for my grandchildren and for piano students. I love it and have bought it for all my kids!!❤️

Go in and out the window

This item is out of print, and I was thrilled to find one in good shape. Many thanks.

Good selection, unusual illustrations

This book features 61 traditional songs, primarily English and American folk and nursery songs. The illustrations, however, are much more diverse--from Japanese scrolls to a picture of a jeweled box shaped like a frog. Each song has a brief introduction describing its origins or other important facts, and each image also has a description, often including historical tidbits. The bountiful images (at least one per page, often more) make it a good book for young children to look at while singing or playing at the piano.

Go in and Out the Window

This looks like a book for children, and it is. But even more important, it is a book for babies! My two year old baby boy already knew some of the songs going into the book. Let me tell you that at two and two months he now requests "Bringing in the Sheaves." and "Down by the Riverside."Every night we take that book to bed and we sing and sing until we fall asleep. This is of course after reading several other board books first. I reccommend this book as a keepsake for life!

not only the old familiar music but museum quality illus.

This is a beautiful collection of old familiar music for children with outstanding illustrations from museum quality art works. The accompaniment is simple to play--fine for sing-alongs.

A fantastic collection of art and children's songs

If you enjoy playing the piano, want to sing with your kids, and expose them to art images that they will always cherish -- this is the song book to get! In fact, I'm buying more copies to give as gifts.