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Sing Through the Day : Eighty Songs for Children - with CD

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Super-durable hard cover book with high quality glossy paper. Contains music and words to 80 songs. There are 56 songs on the CD. Illustrations are colored-in woodcuts and charcoal sketches. Illustrations go with almost every song and include animals, nature scenes, and multicultural children who are happy and doing just about every activity from blowing dandelion seeds into the wind to playing dress-up as king and queen. Songs are well organized by subject. The "chapters" are: morning, play, nature, games, birthday, weather, and evening. An alphabetical index of song titles is at the end of the book. Songs that are included on the CD are clearly marked in the text. The CD is piano music with a chorus of children singing. What a wonderful resource for parents and teachers!

If there was only one songbook for school districts and teachers in daycare and kindergarten rooms, this should be it! The illustrators picture all races and cultures happily sharing the pages. Most excellent: the pictures show 'real' children, not little models. Let's neutralize harsh commercial material thats bombards children with 'what they should look like'! The songs and lyrics are sweet and childlike. It's message is an inspirational to the family and shouts joy from cover to cover.

Sing Through the Day is a family favorite. When I was a parent toddler leader, these songs were the basis of our group. A wonderful collection of truly Waldorf-Inspired songs, this is a great way to learn the melodies to these lovely tunes. In this newly revised edition, eighty songs from around the world are brought together in a stunning musical celebration of childhood. It's all here, from waking up in the morning, playing with puppies or on the swing, watching clouds and picking flowers, to celebrating birthdays, hearing fairytales at bedtime and dreaming of magic ponies. Excellent for Homeschooling families looking for songs! As for the lyrics, this is a veritable gold mine, with classic poems from Christina, Rossetti, Robert Loius Stevenson, Hans Christian Anderson, Rose Fyleman, Margaret Wise Brown, William Blake and many others... I highly recommend this lovely book and compact disc. ...

My 3-year-old son absolutely adores this book and CD. He loves looking at the beautiful color pictures and listening to me sing the songs. He has even picked up the words to many of the songs, and likes to sing along. The songs are unusual -- I had not heard most of them -- and beautiful, with lovely messages about nature and joyful living. A good change from the common nursery rhymes all children learn. There are also some games (actions) suggested for some songs. I took the book to my son's preschool and we sang songs and did the motions -- the kids loved it. I have bought four copies of this book to give away to friends and relatives.

I find this a good songbook for quality family time! You can sing lullabies to your baby, enjoy the multicultural illustrations with your preschooler, learn new songs with your second grader, and read the chords with your budding guitarist. From singing games to finger play to poetry this songbook has such a wide selection, with a CD to help those of us who can't read music.

This is an excellent book for someone looking for unique children's songs from a variety of ethnic origins. I did not know any song in this collection, although I am familiar with several of the poems from which some of them originate.

The CD is very helpful to hear the songs played and sung, although the style of the choir is not my favorite and I find the recordings a bit monotonous as a whole. The songs themselves are very different in style and origin, and I wish the recordings were equally varied.

For someone looking for a collection of more popular children's songs that your kids might already be singing I would recommend Singing Bee, but if you want variety and uniqueness, this is the book for you.

The illustrations are beautiful, and my daughter loves to flip through the book and make up her own songs based on the images!

This is a treasure chest of children's songs that relate to the beauty of everyday life. This book takes you from waking in the rosy morning, exploring the wonders of nature, playing and working with friends, to drifting into dreamland.

I appreciate the quality of the selections in this album. You'll find poetry by recognized poets, folk songs with interesting melodies, and songs filled with gratitude. I will be using some of the simple songs with our preschool class. The songs are not overly cutesy or silly like many songs out there for children. They have a simple sophistication to them without being too hard to sing. The lullaby section of this book is outstanding, in my opinion. I would buy this book for the song called "Daisies" alone! "Stefan was a Stable Lad," "Alpine Song," "I Held a Lamb," "Firefly," and "Japanese Rain Song" are a few more of my favorites.

The songbook includes piano accompaniment and guitar chords. The accompaniment printed in the book is much more simple than the arrangements recorded on the CD. I think you could easily add recorder, flute or violin accompaniment to most songs though.

I've really enjoyed learning the songs with the CD. The children's voices make me think of the Von Trapp children. Yes, the "r's" are strong, and the balance between the accompaniment and the vocals could have used a bit of remastering.(Like the companion songbook CD, Sing Through the Seasons, the flute is overpowering sometimes.) Overall I'm very impressed with their tight harmony and the sweet tone of their voices. Good work Bruderhof children's choir!

These songs seem perfect for classrooms as well as daily singing at home. I love this book!

The book is lovely, the words are turn-of-the-century homey feeling, and the songs are all new to me (and I have been singing for years and years). However, the children singing the songs *are* just children, and this sounds like just a very good school recital, with the choir teacher playing a simple piano background for most songs. Don't get me wrong -- they are a very good school choir, but I hoped for a more professional, warmer and richer sound.

If you get it, enjoy the words, but don't try too hard to copy the singers. If you are a professional musician, the CD may drive you crazy -- especially the emphasis on the Rs at the end of MothERR, singERR, wintERR, etc.