"Overview: This best-selling book now comes with a double CD featuring fifty songs! The book gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence-important building blocks for future readers. With over seven hundred selections, the book and CD will help children build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites. The accompanying double CD features a variety of song styles that are guaranteed to get children up and moving."
"Includes an alphabetical compilation of nursery rhymes, folk songs, and poems, each with themes for classroom activities and instruction."
"Collects and alphabetizes more than seven hundred verse works for children, including poems, songs, chants, and fingerplays, listing theme connections for each, and provides variations and first line, theme, and category indexes."