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"Books
Are Celebrations"
"of everything in the world. In everything,
there's a story, waiting to be unfurled....There are books on runaway
bunnies...Find where the wild things are...There are stories to
give you goosebumps, ride fast in Toad's cool car..." Readers
recognize favorite titles in this upbeat song that celebrates books
as celebrations of life..
Download Books
Are Celebrations Song Clip Here
"Learning
to Read"
"Long ago when I was young, I met the letters
one by one. Man, what an awful lot there were. How could there be
so many? Why couldn't there be just five or six, instead of six
and twenty?"
The poem leads the listener from delight to frustration to triumph
as the narrator progresses from learning letters, to each letter's
multiple sounds, ("There's more
than one way to sound a C?") to learning
to read.--author/teller Linda Goodman.
Download Learning to
Read Storytelling Clip Here
"Old French"
A sample of the good old-fashioned fiddling tunes
that connect many of the pieces on this lively tape. You'll tap
your tootsy-wootsies.
Download Old French
Fiddle Playing Clip Here
"The Big
Fat Worm"
Nancy Van Laan's backyard epic will be a favorite:
a circle story in which a worm, bird, cat and dog play out predator
and prey with funny character voices. All dignity sacrificed for
the sake of laughs in this one.
Download The Big Fat Worm
Storytelling Clip Here
"You
Can Go Anywhere"
...you want to be, just start with a trip to your
library." This lilting song reveals Mary Jo's genuine belief
that whatever you dream, you can begin it at the library. Anything
is possible through books: "You can have lunch with frogs,
meet pharaohs of old, you can climb dinosaurs or meet princesses
bold."
Download You Can Go Anywhere
Song Clip Here
 
Mary Jo inhabits American tall-tale heroine
Old Sally Cato |
"Old Sally Cato"
The American tall tale heroine bests giant Billy
Bally Bully — no thanks to her lazy boys — with plenty
of farmhouse pluck. Hey, it's all in a day's work. Prairie survival
never was this funny. "The only other creatures a-stirrin'
was the chickens. Let's hear the chickens. (audience clucks) Okay,
now hold the chickens." (Not available on "Books Are Celebrations"
cassette to be released at a later tape)
Download Old Sally Cato
Storytelling Clip Here
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