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

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This is a lovely book of full-color spreads & clear, easytoread music to accompany anyone singing these lively, familiarsongs. 61 classic childhood songs are decorated with some of the magnificent treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Songs for work, play, nursery, nonsense rhymes, ballads & lullabies matched to paintings, photographs, bedspreads, sculptures & collages spanning 3000 years from around the world...

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

This is a wonderful book of art works and music. Great for the child who can already play to teach some wonderful old favorite songs that they don't hear today. Easy arrangements and they can sing along after they have mastered the song. If you can play, the littler ones love hearing the songs and singing along as they learn the tunes. These are favorite gifts for musical young families. Great for music appreciation and music activities for pre-schoolers and elementary kids.

This is a wonderful book with great songs of all time. And the pictures are classics. A must for all music and art lovers.

A friend showed me this book, and as a teacher of music and a lover of art, I had to order it! I ordered a "used" copy, and it's lovely!

Book purchased through Amazon. This book is out of print but in style. It combines timeless classic children's songs with wonderful art. A great present from grandparents and aunts and uncles for little ones, or a great gift for new parents. A gem of a book.
Kathy - Ann Arbor