Customer Reviews

Down by the Bay (Raffi Songs to Read)

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What a wonderful book! Any child who has sung "Down By The Bay" will be thrilled with the opportunity to visualize the subjects in the song,for example, a whale with a polka-dotted tale. The illustrations bring these images to life for our little readers. Raffi is talented in helping kids learn to rhyme and just be silly and happy. I would recommend this book to anyone with kids or to those who simply buy for others.

My daughter is 2. She received the Raffi CD for Christmas and LOVED it. She danced and sang to the music. I ran across the "Down By the Bay" book at the store and picked it up. Her and this book are inseperable. She even takes it to bed with her. She loves that her favorite song has a book with pictures. She wants my husband and I to sing the song over and over and she knows enough of the words now to sing with us.

If your child is a little older, this book includes a simple music sheet with the notes and words at the back.

I highly recommend this book.

Again, here is another great Read/Sing book. If you love to sing or are a music educator this book is for you. Rich in American folk heritage, this is one of the many songs MENC recommends that all children know. This song can be sung in echo format or as written in the back. My students constantly want me to read it again. They think the verses are hilarious! As I have said in other reviews of books like this, it gets you away from the piano so you can focus on your students' vocal development!

A very easy sing along!

This book is so much fun. At first I just read it because I didn't realize it was a song. Then I noticed it was a song and I played it and got the hang of it so I started to sing it to my daughter. She loves it. She laughs at the silliness of it and we sing it when we are out. I make up my own verses and made it into a game of rhyming. It is such a fun little book.

This is a very fun book for all. When I was younger I could remember my aunt teaching my sister and I the song, and I was glad when I went to the library and seen that it was a book. I think that if you get this book you will have lots of fun.

This was my first song book and a gift to my child, and it is a wonderful book. What a great gift! Really recommend for the youngest babies learning to love books. I think we will be reading this book over and over for a long time. Listen online for how to sing the song, or make up your own way!

Fun song and fun illustrations have made this my daughter's #1 book! It is read at least 5 times every single day in our home. One of our all-time favorites.

Book was not in the right order. The first page was not in the book at all, instead there was a duplicated page.

I love the idea of making books to songs! We can sing the story, she knows the tune and some of the words and it makes it feel like she's reading too. But I was diappointed in the illustrations. The pages are really busy, it's difficult for my 16 month old to identify the animals because they are not drawn to stand out. She doesn't seem that interested in looking at the pages, but she does like that she recognizes the song when we 'read' it together.

I have been listening to Raffi since my mother played him nonstop on 13 hour roadtrips with six children to see our grandparents. She played him, because it was the only music that we all enjoyed and would listen to over and over again (I am not quite sure how the tape never wore out with all of the rewinding to hear a "favorite" 3 times in a row!). It helped to pass the time and keep us from fighting while she was driving. We aged from newborn to 14 and we all LOVED Raffi. I wanted to purchase his albums so that my children would have the chance to learn from him and have the pleasure of knowing one of the greatest children's entertainer ever!