It took me a while to feel comfortable singing at
storytime. I know I don’t the best
voice—but I’ve finally “gotten over it” and just sing with the kids and have
fun!
On occasion I like to “sing a book”. This adds variety to storytime and highlights
books to the adults that they can then sing to their child. Singing a book also engages children to
participate with you. Often these
books/songs will already be familiar to the child. Singing, like talking, can be expressed with
the written word. Singing books add this
additional dimension to print awareness and print motivation.
I’ve made a list of “sing-able” books that our library
system owns that you may want to try at storytime.
Bear Went Over the Mountain
Trapani, Iza
Wells, Rosemary
Down by the Bay
Raffi
Down by the Station
Hillenbrand, Will
Vetter, Jennifer Riggs
Five Little Ducks
Bates, Ivan
Raffi
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Christelow, Eileen
Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree
Christelow, Eileen
Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
Cabrera, Jane
Hillenbrand, Will
Fatus, Sopie [BOOK WITH CD]
Hokey Pokey
Long, Ethan (Croaky Pokey)
Home on the Range
Ajhar, Brian
How much is that doggie in the window?
Trapani, Iza
If you’re happy and you know it
Cabrera, Jane
Emberley, Rebecca (If you’re a
monster…)
Kubler, Annie
Ormerod, Jan
Sayre, April Pulley (If you’re hoppy…)
Warhola, James (playground/jungle edition)
I’m a Little Teapot
Annie Kubler
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
Daveniet, Christine + CD
Eagle, Kin
Itsy-bitsy spider
Chapman, Keith
Emberley, Ed
Kubler,
Annie
Trapani, Iza
Lady with the alligator purse
Hoberman, Mary Ann
Mary had a little lamb
Trapani, Iza
Miss Mary Mack
Hoberman, Mary Ann
Old MacDonald
Baker, Ken (Old MacDonald had a
dragron)
Cabrera, Jane
Carter,
Don (Old MacDonald drives a tractor)
Dean, James
Quattlebaum, Mary (Jo MacDonald:
hike, garden, pond)
Schwartz, Amy
Shulman, Lisa (Old MacDonald had a
woodshop)
Wells, Rosemary
Over in the Meadow
Ashburn , Boni (Over at the castle)
Berkes,
Marianne (Over in a river : flowing out to the sea)
Cabrera,
Jane
Keats, Ezra Jack
Shulman,
Lisa (Over in the meadow at the big ballet
)
Thornhill,
Jan
Ward,
Jennifer (ocean, desert, Arctic)
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Westcott, Nadine
Row, row, row your boat
Dann, Penny
Kubler, Annie
Trapani, Iza
She’ll be coming ‘round the mountain
Emmett, Jonathan
Westcott, Nadine (Comin’ down to
storytime)
Take me out to the ballgame
Norworth,
Jack + CD
Simon,
Carly + CD
There was an old woman
Colandro, Lucille (bat, clover,
rose, leaves, bell, shell, chick, books)
Taback, Simms
Westcott, Nadine
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Cabrera, Jane
Dean, James
Harker, Lesley
Long, Sylvia
Pinkney, Jerry
Reasoner, Charles
Wells, Rosemary
Wheels on the Bus
Buzzeo, Toni (Library Doors)
Cabrera, Jane
Dann, Penny
Dean, James
Hort, Larry (Seals on the Bus)
Kovalski, Maryann
Moore, Mary Alice (school bus)
Raffi
Yankee Doodle
Hoberman, Mary Ann
Kellogg, Steven
Gingrich,
Callista Yankee Doodle Dandy / by Callista
Do you have any books that you like to sing?
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