Customer Reviews

The Great Big Book of Children's Songs

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This is a good selection of songs. Some of the songs are traditional, but many are more recent songs from musicals, TV and movies. I remember a lot of these songs from watching Sesame Street growing up. The accompaniment varies in difficulty. The book is hard to keep open on a music stand.

I bought this book for the guitar.

There are a handful of songs in this book that are great staples of the American childhood. The majority, however, are too obscure to even attempt.

I purchased this book along with the "Big Book of Children's Songs", also from Hal Leonard. Let me tell you, they are like night and day.

1) The songs in the other book are more playable/singable/recognizable than this book.

2) The music in this book is horrid! I don't know who transcribed it, but they must be tone deaf! There are a couple of songs that are duplicated between the books and the music is COMPLETELY different.

Buyer beware.

All children love to sing! My two girls and I, ages 5 and 2, enjoy sitting at the piano singing songs from The Great Big Book of Children's Songs. Great melody introductions and easy playing. Great tool in bonding relationships with young children.

Song List:

* ABC-DEF-GHI
* The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
* The Bare Necessities
* Be Kind To Your Parents
* Beauty And The Beast
* Bein' Green
* Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song)
* The Bible Tells Me So
* The Brady Bunch
* 'C' Is For Cookie
* The Candy Man
* Casper The Friendly Ghost
* Chim Chim Cher-ee
* Circle Of Life
* The Crawdad Song
* Cruella De Vil
* Did You Ever See A Lassie?
* Dites-Moi (Tell Me Why)
* Do-Re-Mi
* A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
* Edelweiss
* Everything Is Beautiful
* Feed The Birds
* (Meet) The Flintstones
* Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
* Frog Went A-Courtin'
* Getting To Know You
* Go In And Out The Window
* Happy Trails
* Heart And Soul
* Heigh-Ho
* Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life For Me)
* House At Pooh Corner
* I Don't Want To Live On The Moon
* I Love Trash
* I Whistle A Happy Tune
* I'm Popeye The Sailor Man
* I've Got No Strings
* It's A Small World
* Jesus Loves Me
* Kum Ba Yah
* Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up?
* Let's Go Fly A Kite
* Magic Penny
* Mah-Na Mah-Na
* The Marvelous Toy
* Mary Had A Little Lamb
* Mickey Mouse March
* The Muffin Man
* The Muppet Show Theme
* My Favorite Things
* On The Good Ship Lollipop
* The Paw Paw Patch
* People In Your Neighborhood
* Peter Cottontail
* Polly Put The Kettle On
* Puff The Magic Dragon
* Rubber Duckie
* Sailing, Sailing
* Sing
* Sing A Song Of Sixpence
* A Spoonful Of Sugar
* Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
* Take Me Out To The Ball Game
* There's A Hole In The Bucket
* This Train
* The Unbirthday Song
* Under The Sea
* Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?
* A Whole New World
* Won't You Be My Neighbor? (It's A Beautiful Day In This Neighborhood)
* Yellow Submarine
* Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

My husband and I were pleased with the wide variety of children's songs contained in the book, many of which brought back memories of our own childhood. We've enjoyed the music together in anticipation of our first baby's arrival this year!

While this book contains songs quite appropriate for a children's songbook, it also contains some of the most challenging guitar chords I've ever attempted! While I'm not an expert player by any means, I haven't encountered any other book with as many obscure chords (e.g., when was the last time you played a Bb7#5?). The target audience appears to be more at the expert level--this is evidenced by well over half of the songs being in tough keys to play on the guitar (principally Bb, Eb, and F).

If you're looking for a book for singing around the campfire with easily-recognizable guitar chords, try Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook (15th Anniversary Edition) instead--it has many of the same songs in easier keys.

Didn't have the songs that we were looking for. I label it as useless.

I found several songs I could use for subbing in elementary and middle school music classes with my ukulele. A few old favorites were missing like London Bridge and The Farmer in the Dale.

I love the songs in this book. My family and I have had a lot of fun singing especially the familiar old Disney songs. Most of the songs are simple enough for me to sight read but a few are in tricky keys. (I'm only a mediocre pianist)