Reviewed by Susan Young, university lecturer in early childhood and music education
This is an attractive book containing a collection of 36 songs, including several nursery rhymes, traditional children's songs and songs composed by the author herself.
The book comes with a CD of all the songs accompanied by live instrumentalists - a welcome change from the synthesised production heard on many children's CDs. The pace of the singing, quite slow, is well suited to young children and the words are very clear.
The CD will also be helpful for practitioners who would like to increase their song repertoire.
There are brief activity ideas for each song, which are separated into two age groups: one- to two-year-olds and three- to four-year-olds. While useful, I believe many of these ideas would be too demanding for the very youngest and not demanding enough for the oldest.
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