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Alfred's Easy Best-Loved Children's Songs: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Book

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Toddlers and young children love to sing classic nursery rhymes & songs and dance along. This activity strengthens bonds with family, encourages brain development and musicality, and most importantly, it's fun!

This beautiful keepsake collection of over 100 classic nursery rhymes, playground songs, activity tunes, and memory rhymes ensures that all those bases are covered for parents, teachers, and their kids. Carefully arranged for piano, these songs are perfect for parents or teachers to play and sing with toddlers and young children. Each song also includes guitar and ukulele chords for easy strum-and-sing performance. The book features a "Genre Index" that breaks the titles down into song types and categories---especially useful for educators. Finally, an "About the Songs" section rounds out the collection with a brief history of all the tunes, and to demonstrate what the songs should sound like, professional MP3 recordings of every song can be accessed from alfred.com with purchase of the book.

Titles: A-Hunting We Will Go * All the Pretty Little Horses * All Through the Night * Alouette * The Alphabet Song * The Animal Fair * Apples and Bananas * Baa, Baa, Black Sheep * The Bear Went Over the Mountain * Billy Boy * Bingo * Bobby Shafto * Boys and Girls Come Out to Play * Brahms' Lullaby (Lullaby and Goodnight) * Brush Your Teeth * Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) * Come Little Leaves * Deck the Hall * Did You Ever See a Lassie? * Do Your Ears Hang Low * Down by the Bay * Down in My Heart (I've Got the Joy) * Eency Weency Spider * The Farmer in the Dell * Father's Whiskers * Five Little Monkeys * Frere Jacques/Are You Sleeping * Frog Went A-Courtin' * Go In and Out the Window * Goodnight, Ladies * The Grande Olde Duke of York * Happy Wanderer * Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes * Here We Go Looby-Loo * Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush * He's Got the Whole World (in His Hands) * Hey Diddle Diddle * Hickory Dickory Dock * Home on the Range * Hot Cross Buns * Humpty Dumpty * Hush, Little Baby * I Have a Little Dreidel * If You're Happy (and You Know It) * I'm a Little Teapot * I'm a Nut * I'm H-A-P-P-Y! * It's Raining, It's Pouring * I've Been Working on the Railroad * Jack and Jill * Jingle Bells * John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt * Kumbaya * Lavender's Blue * Limericks * Little Bo Peep * Little Boy Blue * Little Jack Horner * London Bridge Is Falling Down * Mary Had a Little Lamb * Michael Finnegan * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore * The More We Get Together * The Muffin Man * My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean * Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow * Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? * Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? * The Old Grey Mare * Old MacDonald Had a Farm * On the Bridge of Avignon * On Top of Old Smokey * Over the River and Through the Woods * Pat-a-Cake * Peas Pudding * Polly, Put the Kettle On * Polly Wolly Doodle * Pop! Goes the Weasel * Raisins and Almonds * Rig-a-Jig-Jig * Ring Around the Rosie * Rock-a-Bye Baby * Roll Over (Six in the Bed) * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * Sailing, Sailing * She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain * Shoo Fly * Shortnin' Bread * Sing a Song of Sixpence * Six Little Ducks * Skip to My Lou * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * There's a Hole in My Bucket * This Is the Way the Ladies Ride * This Little Light of Mine * This Old Man * This Train Is A-Comin' * Three Blind Mice * Three Little Kittens * A-Tisket, A-Tasket * To Market, to Market * The Twelve Days of Christmas * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star * Waltzing Matilda * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * The Wheels on the Bus * When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again * Yankee Doodle.

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Additional Details
Series: Alfred's Easy
Publisher: Alfred Music
Page Count: 240
ISBN10: 1-4706-3765-0
ISBN13: 978-1-4706-3765-1
UPC: 038081524245
SKU: 00-46035

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Why we love this

Over 100 songs in one volume means you're not hunting through five different books to build a repertoire of singable material for young children. The Genre Index transforms what could be a flat collection into a practical teaching tool: need songs about animals? Weather? Bedtime? It's all organized and ready. Pairing piano arrangements with guitar chords and ukulele notation means any adult with basic strumming skills can lead these songs, not just trained pianists.

What to expect

Warm, uncomplicated, and joyful. These are the songs that live in children's memories long after the moment passes: the melodies are singable in one try, the lyrics invite participation and movement, and the accompaniments step back to let the voice shine. You're building tradition and music memory, not performing concert repertoire.

Who it's for

Parents introducing music to toddlers and preschoolers at home, early childhood educators in classroom or Montessori settings, and music teachers who need accessible, organized material for group singing with very young children. Anyone without advanced piano training can lead these songs confidently using the guitar chords or simplified keyboard arrangements.

How to get the most out of it

  • Keep the piano arrangement light and transparent so young voices can be heard clearly; resist the urge to fill in all the parts densely.
  • Use the professional MP3 recordings as a reference for tempo and phrasing before you teach a song to children, especially for unfamiliar tunes.
  • Pair the written guitar chords with the piano voicing rather than choosing one or the other; a parent playing guitar while you play piano creates richer accompaniment than either instrument alone.
  • Let children see your hand position and finger movement on the keyboard; even toddlers absorb spatial learning from watching a trusted adult make music.

How to use it

Use the Genre Index to sequence songs thematically within a family music class or preschool music time: start with movement songs to engage wiggly bodies, transition to lullabies as energy winds down, and close with a familiar favorite. In an early childhood setting, anchor your curriculum by rotating through categories each week so children gradually internalize a repertoire they'll carry forward.

Skills your students will build

  • Matching pitch and controlling vocal tone in group singing
  • Recognizing song form and predicting phrase endings
  • Coordinating singing with movement and body awareness
  • Building music vocabulary through exposure to nursery rhymes and traditional verse
  • Listening and memory skills through repetition of familiar tunes
  • Recognition of basic guitar and keyboard chord symbols

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