A companion volume to Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook offers forty-three songs in praise of barnyard creatures, each prefaced by information about the song's history and accompanied by a simple musical score for piano and guitar.
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PreSchool-Grade 3-An unusual, delightful compilation of barnyard-related folk songs. Beginning with "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," Yolen includes ditties that she heard as a child either from her parents, at school, or at camp. Many of them will be familiar to youngsters, such as "The Cat Came Back" and "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." Those that aren't as familiar will be fun to learn. Each selection is introduced with a brief source note. The simple musical scores are good-sized and well spaced on the page; guitar chords are included. Hoffman's attractive colored-ink illustrations handsomely depict stylized animals and people. Narrow geometric borders decorate the top and bottom of each page. There are many books of children's folk songs available, but this may be the only one that features solely farm animals. It makes a nice companion volume to this talented team's Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook (Boyds Mills, 1992). Hiawyn Oram's A Creepy Crawly Song Book (Farrar, 1993) is another attractive presentation, but includes only songs about insects.
Beth Irish, Orange Public Library, CA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Beth Irish, Orange Public Library, CA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 3-6. In a companion to her popular Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook (1992), Yolen delivers a lively collection of 43 songs featuring animals from the farm. She introduces each selection with a brief comment about the song's origins or an interesting bit of nostalgic trivia. Stemple once again provides arrangements for both piano and guitar, and Hoffman has returned with her unusual colored-ink illustrations. A combination of the fantastic and the real, the barnyard creatures dance across pages decorated with patterned borders along top and bottom. At the beginning of each selection is a word or phrase describing the manner in which the song should be sung--"wistfully," or "jauntily," for example. Parents and teachers may find these directives helpful for building vocabulary and for teaching the importance of mood and expression in singing. Lauren Peterson
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Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Active in several organizations, Yolen has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, the Western Massachusetts Illustrators Guild, and the Bay State Writers Guild. For twenty years, she ran a monthly writer's workshop for new children's book authors. In 1980, when Yolen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the citation recognized that "throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration--folk culture." Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes Yolen. "From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world." Folklore, she believes, is the universal human language, a language that children instinctively feel in their hearts. All of Yolen's stories and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding. Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille. With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told."
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MUSICAL AND MERRY,
This review is from: Jane Yolen's Old MacDonald Songbook (Hardcover)
This little book is a musical, merry collection of 43 favorite songs that extol the virtues of farm animals.Of course, you'll find "Turkey In The Straw," "Three Little Kittens," plus others. Each song is introduced by a brief paragraph about its origin.
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