Fireside Book of Children's Songs

By musical arrangements Winn, Marie / Allan Miller

Book Overview

This is a treasury of songs appealing to children. The book is illustrated in color and includes the words for all of the songs plus verses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000NZ8FZY
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good songs, including some hard-to-find

My family has had this book since I was a child. I didn't appreciate it much until recently, when I began to look for children's songbooks for my own children. It has fewer common songs than most songbooks, such as Singing Bee; so it would be best for someone looking for hard-to-find songs or singing games. (It includes a section for singing games, with good descriptions of the actions for the children--mostly circle games, such as The Farmer In the Dell.) The illustrations are very stylized. Most songs include a sentence or two describing their origins. Some of its hard-to-find songs that I appreciate include: Frog Went A-Courtin', Aiken Drum, Michael Finnegan, If All the Raindrops, Ain't It Great to be Crazy?, The Animal Fair, and Kookaburra.It's sections are:Good Morning and Good Night (18)Birds and Beasts (20)Nursery Songs (21)Silly Songs (20)Singing Games and Rounds (26)