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The Eentsy, Weentsy Spider: Fingerplays and Action Rhymes

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As someone with training in folklore, I always trust a book with Joanna Cole's name on it. This book does a very good job of showing (rather than desscribing) the actions and provides the words and music. As it is folklore, you will find some of the fingerplays or action rhymes from your childhood as well as new additions to your repetoire. As I have come to expect, I believe that the publishing company has underestimated the age range for which the book is appropriate ... listen to your young friends after their first camping trip with the cub scouts, bluebirds etc. and you will find that even at that ages children are teaching children some of these plays.

I love this book! I use it all the time when I want to keep kids up to 6 years old busy. I have kids who visit who beg me to bring out the book to do the finger plays. I recommend it highly.

This book contains 38 finger plays, from the well-known (I'm a Little Teapot) to ones I've never heard of (Here are Mother's Knives and Forks). Each is in big type with large illustrations to show you how to do the fingerplay. For those that are sung, musical arrangements are at the back of the book, along with a bibliography and index.

Excellent resource for the fingerplay challenged!

this book is just what I was looking for. the songs and poems are short and easy. lots of old favorites and new ones, too.

I needed this book for an assignment for school. I found it in my local library and found it very helpful. When I looked it up on Amazon and found it for less than $3.00 I decided to buy it. It has drawings of the motions as well as the words and has around forty fingerplays/action rhymes. Although it was used I did not see anything wrong with my copy.

There are so many songs and fingerplays that I can't remember! This book is a great reminder for parents on how to do them, and even learn some new ones. Adorable book with great presentations of each activity highly recommended to anyone with a toddler!