John Langstaff

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1) Over in the Meadow

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"Numbers for knee highs couldn't be more fun. . . ."--Kirkus Reviews John Langstaff's endearing version of an old counting song for children is filled with the beauty and wonder of meadow life.

2) Frog Went a-Courtin'

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Langstaff, John

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English

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Winner of the 1956 Caldecott Medal. "A favorite old nursery ballad now appears in resplendent new dress. . . . Illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky somehow manages to combine quaintness with sophistication and his doughty frog, the coy mouse . . . and others make charming company."-The New York Times Book Review

3) Frog went a-courtin'

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Langstaff, John M

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English

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Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

4) Over in the meadow

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Langstaff, John M

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English

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Poetry for Little Ones

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A presentation of an old counting rhyme about meadow animals and their activities.

5) The wheels on the bus: and more sing along favorites

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English

6) On Christmas Day in the morning: a traditional carol

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English

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Illustrated verses for this traditional English folk song present different animals tending to their crops and harvesting them for a Christmas feast.

7) Make music!: a kid's guide to creating rhythm, playing with sound, and conducting and composing music

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Haynes, Norma Jean

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English

8) Making music

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Wiseman, Ann Sayre

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English

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Includes instructions for making a variety of simple musical instruments from ordinary household items. Duet for Zipper and Velcro. Sonata for Milk Carton Guitar. Kitchen Concerto. Every home and classroom is crammed with objects kids can use to make music. This book teaches kids, parents, and teachers how to see musical possibilities in everything from a crumpled sheet of paper to a stick tapped against Venetian blinds to thimbles glued to the finger-...

9) Sing-along stories

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All the colors of the earth: Reveals in verse that despite outward differences, children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable. Foolish frog: A dramatization of Charles L. Seeger's and Pete Seeger's song of the same title in which a foolish bullfrog explodes with pride when he hears someone singing a song about him. Over in the meadow: Counting song in which flowers and grasses, animals and insects, mothers and their young provide...