A keepsake volume of 30 classic nursery rhymes and songs to share with your baby, illustrated with enchanting hand-embroidered artwork.
Science tells us that babies develop best when they are spoken to, sung to, and read to. Even when they’re tiny, the sound of their parents’ voices helps babies make sense of the world and feel comfortable with new people and places—and this beautiful book brings you best-loved nursery rhymes and songs in one handsome volume, including:
Five Little Ducks; Once I Caught A Fish Alive; Round and Round the Garden; The ABC Song; Teddy Bears Picnic; She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain; If You’re Happy and You Know It; Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes; I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; Rain, Rain, Go Away; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Ten in the Bed; Dingle Dangle Scarecrow; 10 Green Bottles; B-I-N-G-O; A Sailor Went to Sea; Ring Around the Rosie; The More We Get Together; Five Little Monkeys; Finger Family; Wind the Bobbin up; Polly Put the Kettle On; Do Your Ears Hang Low?; The Ants Go Marching; Grand Old Duke of York; Apples and Bananas; Kookaburra; Teddy Bear; Skidamarink a Dink a Dink; The Wheels on the Bus
Bond with your baby and help them grow as you recite and sing these timeless rhymes.
This book is part of the Stitched Storytime series—also available are Read to Your Baby Every Day, Read to Your Toddler Every Day,Read to Your Baby Every Night, and Pray with Your Baby Every Day.---from the publisher
62 pages 978-1836003557 Ages Babies to 2 year olds
Keywords: early literacy, read aloud to babies, 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year old, rhymes, nursery rhymes, fun, Language Arts Curriculum, activities, songs, new baby gifts
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This lovely book is exactly what we all want motherhood to be. It gives us the nursery rhymes we've sung for generations so we can keep that connection with the mothers and grandmothers and greats who have come before us. The listening ears will deliver the new vocabulary and rhymes and rhythms to the neurons so the much-needed neural pathways will build. You've seen the nursery rhymes before but I don't remember ever seeing them with the illustrations done in oh so charming embroidery. You just have to see this. It is so lovely and so gentle and so nurturing.
The words are here for you but the melodies are not included so if you did not grow up hearing these (and few will know all of these) you will need to get a cd from the library or go online to your favorite music source and hear what the melody sounds like. When I worked in a public library I had many non-native born parents tell me they were afraid to read aloud or sing aloud to their children in English. They wanted their children to have the accent that Americans use. I always, always told them that the voice their children want to hear the most in the entire universe is THEIR voice. So, please don't hesitate. Sit down with this simply lovely book, turn on the cd, and you will quickly pick up the rhythm and you can share some very special moments with your own little one.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
