The Singing Year

Includes learning CD

Candy Verney

Softbound

$33.00

This is simply a lovely book! Singing with babies and young children is one of the joys of being a parent - here is a collection of delightful songs that you and the children you love will enjoy equally. In The Singing Year, a companion to The Singing Day, you can follow the year in song and nature activites. The seasons and their special creatures and plants will practically dance their way into your hearts.

Another treasure for parents and teachers, a gift to children!

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Wilma Ellersiek

Inside Spiral Bound

$28.00

Long awaited, it will be long loved! Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter brings with it the same love and warmth of Ellersiek's Spring and Summer volume and her incomparable Giving Love, Bringing Joy. Anyone with young children in their lives will discover a new world of joy in Autumn and Winter - one with crackly leaves and crunchy frost, one with beauty all around. This beautiful book is a gift to children and the adults who love them - we warmly invite you to enter its world.

Gesture Games for Spring and Summer
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Wilma Ellersiek

Inside spiral bound

$28.00

These songs, hand gestures and movement games foster a joy and enthusiasm that leads our children toward a love and understanding of nature -- and no wonder, as they were created by the author of Giving Love, Bringing Joy. What an inspiring work! You'll love these as much as the children do.

Gesture Games for Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

A Learning CD

Performed by Connie Manson
Accompanied by Ilian Wilwerth

$15.95

Beautifully performed songs from Gesture Games for Spring and Summer and Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter -- for you to learn to sing with the children in your care.

Contains 19 songs of Spring/Summer and 18 Autumn/Winter songs.

Gesture Games Set

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter - Book
Gesture Games for Spring and Summer - Book
Gesture Games for Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter - Audio CD

Price if purchased separately: $71.90

Set Price: $68.95

Giving Love - Bringing Joy
Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth

Wilma Ellersiek

For Children between Birth & Nine

$28.00

Here is a beautiful collection of original songs, hand games, touch games, lullabies, and, well, just about everything you could want to create a joyful moment with a child or class of children. I have personally never seen an offering quite like this one - Ellersiek's gift is that the tapestry of her songs and games actually awakens love within the adult which then streams out in joy to the child(ren) with whom the adult plays and sings. These are wonderful! If you have young children in your life, try these. They are like liquid drops of golden sunshine.

Giving Love - Bringing Joy - CD
Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth
A Learning CD

Wilma Ellersiek

Performed by Connie Manson

Poetic Translation by Kundry Wilwerth

$10.95

A beautiful way to teach yourself the lullabies, hand games and simple songs of Giving Love - Bringing Joy. Connie Manson sings all fifteen of of these very special songs with a simplicity and lilting grace that evoke the love we carry for our children. There's a bonus song, too!

Giving Love - Bringing Joy
Book & CD Together

Softbound

Price if purchased separately: $38.95

Set Price: $37.00

Singing Games
For Families, Schools and Communities

Anna Rainville

Illustrations by Helen Caswell and Lee Ann Welch

Learning CD included

Softbound

$25.95

Welcome to a world where song, celebration and play unite in a joyful festival of music and movement! Anna Rainville has brought an extensive collection of beloved singing games and plays together in one volume for all of us to learn, use and celebrate. In addition to the melody line score, she has added the warmest descriptions ever of how to dance, play and weave these songs into celebrations both large and small. The accompanying illustrations are little touches of love as well, and just right for each song they grace.

There isn't a kindergarten or early grades classroom or homeschool, or a community potluck that wouldn't be infused with a delicious joy by the addition of any of these song games. That this songbook/cd set is now available is a gift to all of us.

Clump-a-Dump and Snickle-Snack
Pentatonic Children's Songs by Johanne Russ

Translated by Lyn S. Willerth

Softbound

$6.50

This lovely collection of songs became an almost constant companion when our children were young. We sang just about all of them -- some, like the lullabies, were heard every day; others, like the songs for Christmas, Michaelmas, Easter and the seasons, became hallmarks of joyous times and occasions.

For sheer beauty and delight, and for songs that both children and parents love, Clump-a-Dump and Snickle-Snack is just the ticket!

Let's Dance and Sing
Story Games for Children

Arranged by Kundry Willerth

Softbound

$12.95

Let's Dance and Sing offers up some of the most beloved circle games of the Waldorf kindergarten. All of them tell little stories, some of them reflect fairy tales told during story time. The music is charming, engaging, memorable (the minute I saw these songs again, I started humming some of my favorites, so well did they live in my memory after nearly 20 years!). You'll love them, the children in your care will love them. A classic collection.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Daffodil (a personal favorite of mine!)
• Eastertrain
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Seven Little Kids
• Birthday
• Aschenputtel
• The Carrot
• The Spinning Game
• St. George - A Play
• Stone Soup
• Old Joseph Goes Walking
• King Kaspar
• Christmas Night

I Love to Be Me
Songs in the Mood of the Fifth

Music by Channa A. Seidenberg

Illustrations by Kingsley Lou Little

Softbound

$19.95

Sweet songs for our young children - accompanied by soft and lovely watercolor paintings, just right for our little ones to gaze at.

This is a collection that is little known in the United States -- the 32 songs are small, delightful, soft and sweet celebrations of daily life, nature and play. I'm sure you'll love them as much as the children will.

Sing through the Seasons
Seventy-three Songs for Children

Compiled and Edited by Marlys Swinger

Illsutrated by Brenna and Nancy McKernan

Includes an audio sing-along CD featuring 25 songs

Early intermediate piano music, all words and chords for each song

Hardbound

$24.00

This wonderful book is actually out-of-print right now, but we discovered a supply held by one of our distributors. Needless to say, we're delighted!

These are timeless, joy-filled songs from all over the world -- many will be familiar to you, already a part of your own traditions. Many will open doors to other cultures, places and times and some are brand new, ready to take their place alongside the older songs. All of the songs are just the sort children love to sing, and adults find themselves humming throughout the day.

Included are songs for the four seasons plus a special section of Birthday songs.

Jabulani!
Ideas for Making Music

Carol Shephard and Bobbie Stormont

Includes Audio CD

Softbound

$32.00

This book is for all those who ever wanted to make music but thought they couldn’t. You don’t have to be able to read music or follow a song sheet. Jabulani! gives you all the tools you need to feel confident about creating music and leading music activities.

Teachers, play workers, parents, and frustrated air-guitar players of all ages will find a wealth of inspiration in this practical, user-friendly guidebook. Each section is packed with musical activities and games, useful tips, case studies, and safety notes.

Jabulani! features:

• Chants, calls, raps, group harmonies, and improvisations help you find your voice
• Easy instructions for making drums, shakers, and other instruments from scrap materials
• How to organize and lead a music session
• Suggestions for adapting activities for participants with special needs
• Ideas for using music with storytelling, sports activities, puppetry, and drama
• And a CD that allows you to hear the activities in action

A House Filled with Music

Margaret and Rolf Rettich

Includes CD with music composed by Michael Rüggelberg, narrated by Meg Swansen*

Hardbound, storybook format

$28.00

There once lived a man whose head was filled with music - but the city was so noisy that he could barely hear the beautiful melodies. So he bought a house in the quiet countryside and invited other musicians to move in: the String family, the Woodwind and Brass families, a man with a piano, a harpist, and several percussionists. Soon sounds droned and groaned, thundered and rumbled throughout the house. This was not what the man had imagined. What was he to do???

What to say about this award-winning children's book, in clear and lovely English at last?

That it is a captivating introduction to symphonic instruments? And music itself? It is - whether you are a child or an adult, you'll love it. I've started calling it "Peter and the Wolf for the 21st Century."

That the musical score is a joy? It's true - Michael Rüggelbert has captured the personality of each instrument (and the challenges of getting some of them to get along with some of the others!) with such insight and humor that I felt warm and smiley all the way through the CD.

That the story is wonderful? It's more than just that, actually. It's very, very human. Just as orchestra instruments each have their own very distinctive voice, and it is indeed an art make them harmonize with each other, so it is with all of us. The authors of The House Filled with Music understand well that the human comedy goes from cacophony to joy only with a lot of listening, some silence, self-control, skill, and effort. This is a story that children love and adults will love with them - priceless!

And, there's more. The score is available (separately, from its publisher) for your school or community orchestra to perform! This is such an inspiration -- my hope is that in halls throughout North America, this story with its music will be played, loved, and played again.

And in the meantime, you and your children or class can enjoy this musical story to your heart's content.

*Yes, I know that Waldorf education does not encourage listening to recorded music, and I largely agree with the reasons for this. However, in the course of my life I have found that sometimes the delight we can share through such a recording is something to be grateful for, not shunned. This is the case with this CD -- it has my unflinching stamp of approval for children and adults. I promise it will spring rightly to life in your hearts -- do enjoy!

Quintenlieder
Music for Young Children in the Mood of the Fifth

Julius Knierim

Translated by Peter and Karen Klaveness

Softbound

$15.95

Quintenlieder has been for many years a treasured resource for all who want to share the joy of music with young children.

Julius Knierim has gathered children's rhymes from throughout Europe and, by way of showing us all how to do it, set them to lilting and lovely songs written in the mood of the fifth. He has also taken the time to explain to those of us not well-educated musically just what makes a pentatonic song one that is "in the mood of the fifth" ("Old Man River", for instance, is written in a pentatonic scale, but is hardly in the mood of the fifth).

Further, he shows graphically how to keep the notes of a song you create in the mood of the fifth - I am not at all a musician, yet found myself easily inventing song-like melodies that floated through the air. It was fun, too!

If children ages 9 and under are in your life or your classroom, you'll want to use this book. There are wonderful things to be learned and beautiful songs to sing!

All Night, All Day
A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals

Selected and Illustrated by
Ashley Bryan

Softbound

$6.99

Ashley Bryan says, "I have subtitled this collection A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. It could really be called Spirituals for the Young and ALL!" And so it could be, for the songs it presents can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill.

Of the thousand or so African-American spirituals that are known, Mr. Bryan has here chosen twenty, among them some of the best known and best loved (and some of the one's I loved best to sing as a child!), including "All Night, All Day", "This Little Light of Mine," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." For each, David Manning Thomas has created an interesting piano accompaniment and indicated guitar chords. Bryan's full-color illustrations complete this very special book that is both a fine songbook and a beautiful treasure.

Very highly recommended for the music, warmth, liveliness and depth of inspiration!

The Christmas Star
Well-loved songs for the Christmas season from Advent to Three Kings Day to sing with your beloved children

Mary Thienes-Schunemann

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Songbook and audio CD
Parent/Teacher Resource

BACK IN PRINT!!

$21.95

In olden times, when a person wished to express something sacred and holy, they were not allowed to speak about it, they could only sing. It was recognized that singing contained a higher power than speech and was a holy activity. There are still echoes of this ancient practice in some cultures of the world today. The memory is still present that how we use our voices to sing and speak can contribute to healing and peace, in our hearts and in the world.

- Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Tears filled my eyes several times as I listened to the CD that accompanies this extraordinary song book. It was not just that the music and singing were so very beautiful, nor was it that the songs were so well chosen, nor even that they brought back some of the best memories of my life. It was that Mary's music is all these things and something much more as well - The Christmas Star is quite simply a sun-drenched outpouring of hope and love. What could have been just one more nice collection of Christmas carols has, through her healing artistry and deep sensitivity, come into the world a gleaming, golden gift of life offered to our children and their children beyond.

I can't think of a better gift for your children, your family, yourself - a true celebration of the Light of Love kindled in the darkest season.

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Lavender's Blue Dilly Dilly
Enchanting Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose Songs and Singing Games for Wonder-Filled Dance and Play

Songbook & CD
with Guitar Chords

Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Spiral bound

$21.95

Every nursery rhyme I've ever loved and sung to our children is here, accompanied Mary Thienes-Schunemann's soft, heart-opening voice on a learning CD. This is a beautiful collection of traditional children's songs and games - timeless, joyfilled, life affirming.

Today's children are starved for singing, just as they are for touch, story telling, and play. . . . This songbook is truly a treasure, one that should be in the hands of every parent, care-giver, and teacher. This book fills a critical need in American childhood (and parenthood) today!

- Joseph Chilton Pearce, Author:
Magical Child, Evolution's End, and The Biology of Transcendence

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This Is the Way We Wash-a-Day
Inspiring songs for work & play to sing throughout the day

Songbook with CD

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Featuring a conversation with Pete Seeger

$21.95

We've all been waiting so long for this songbook/CD - how wonderful that it is finally available!

Mary has collected some of the best work & play songs that any child could hear of sing. Her crystal clear, soft voice carries any adult along as you learn them to share with the children in your life. Pete Seeger's contribution to this wonderful collection is an almost-too-good-to-be-true addition - yet another inspiration to 'make a joyous noise'!

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Sing a Song of Seasons
Singing with Children Series

Songs from the seasons of nature to sing with young children

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Arranged by Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

Sing the new songs! Sing with Joy! . . . not only with your tongue, but with your life!

- St. Augustine

So begins - and rightly so! - this gift of a songbook for parents, teachers and children. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has created exactly the songbooks that I have for years heard adults who care for children begging for. As with her other songbooks, this one is packed with beautiful, mescal, expressive songs to share with young children - AND it comes with CD you can use to hear Mary sing all the songs in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs and share them with your beloved children - who will grow with smiles and gladness and song at their singing.

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Sing a Song with Baby
Singing with Children Series

Delightful bounces and body games from fingers to toes to sing with your wee ones

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

By Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

For a caress is abode and shelter;
I caress the child
so as to protect her
and bring her joy . . .
Thereby she receives a sign
on the velvet of her face.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The City in the Desert"

The songs in The Singing Baby are indeed caresses - of laughter, the joy of discover, of head-to-toe delight and soft soothing wonder. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has created exactly the songbooks that I have for years heard adults who care for children begging for. This songbook offers up a feast of parent-baby games, bounces and joy - all beautiful and deliciously musical. It comes with a CD you can use to hear Mary sing all the songs in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs and share them with your beloved children - who will bring your their giggles and squeals and joy again and again and again.

One of our customers writes:

At the time we ordered the songbooks from you, my new son was about two months old and Grace, my 2+ year old daughter, seemed to be doing the "big sister withdrawal" that older siblings sometimes do . . . The music, and the beautiful drawings, drew her in right away. Especially The Singing Baby, which incorporates so much play and touching, was just what we needed to reconnect. Of course, when she was avoiding physical contact it was really that she wanted it very much because she saw how much Luke was getting. This allowed us to get close again in a happy, fun way.

- RD in Massachusetts

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The Wonder of Lullabies
Singing with Children Series

Lullabies from around the world to sing with children of all ages

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Arranged & Recorded by Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

. . . to all the children under the Sun, Moon and Stars

-Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Here are the songs mothers round the world use to grace their children at the close of each day. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has gathered lullabies from all over our dear planet, like glowing pearls on a necklace of love. This grace-filled songbook comes with a CD you can use to hear Mary sing - ever so sweetly - each lullaby in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs to guide your children into sleep - and you can watch as your children smile into the arms of their angels.

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Let Us Form a Ring
An Acorn Hill Anthology

Nancy Foster

$21.00

Let Us Form a Ring is the original Acorn Hill Anthology and anyone who has used it can testify to the happy richness these songs and games bring to children. This is truly a classic collection. The collection is organized by season, celebrations and daily rhythms and is a treasure worth its weight in hugs and kisses.

Dancing as We Sing
Seasonal Circle Plays
and Traditional Singing Games

Nancy Foster

$21.00

Dancing as We Sing is the second Acorn Hill Kindergarten anthology. It includes Daily Songs to use each day to introduce circle time, snack time, story time, and the end of the morning; Seasonal Circle Plays for circle time throughout the year; and Traditional Singing Games that have been longtime joys for children. Nancy Foster has added introductory commentary to these three basic sections which offers her experience in using the songs and games in a Waldorf kindergarten. Just reading through this collection makes me feel like I'm back in the kindergarten - what a delight!

Horns of Hermes
A Teacher/Parent Manual on Music for Grades 1-7

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

A wonderfully thorough discussion of when and how to introduce children to the joy of music. Contents: animal song, evolution, spirit of music, bird song, 7 instruments of the temple, the strings, winds, idiophones, percussion, music curriculum, teacher as songwriter, music for festivals, aboriginal songmasters.

33 Sun Songs
A 7-Year Music Score for Steiner Primary Children

Alan Whitehead

Softbound
Oversize Format, approx. 8"x11.5"

$22.95

Classroom tested and sung joyfully over three decades! These 33 songs cover all a full range of subjects and seasons and are musically delightful. We think that whether you use this for your own class or homeschool, or whether they become an inspiration for you to create your own musical offerings for the children you teach, you will love these and remember them long after you and the children have given them voice.

Included alongside the music are color photos and drawings and many warm and humorous anecdotes surrounding the songs. Another inspiring resource from Alan Whitehead!